RE: Death knell for quality content?

[john -at- garisons -dot- com]

Gordon wrote:
> Aside from someone 'monetising' this, how is this different from what we
> have at the moment?


To my mind the biggest difference is that the provider/publisher KNOWS
it's poor quality and puts it out there anyway. And I doubt they'll say
anything like "This might not be written good, and it may not be right,
but we think it's good enough."

True, some people will learn to distinguish good from bad. But IMHO this
will lead more and more to the conclusion that writers not only don't know
what they're talking about - now they can't even say it properly.  It's
bad enough we get flak from trying to do a good job ... it'll get worse
when that goes out the window.




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