Gatekeeping

I'm going to have to agree with JR on this one. I believe that in the future the gatekeepers of the media will be the main population. Why not? So much news nowadays is being put on the Internet before it even reaches print or broadcast. You can't have a gatekeeper for all of these news organizations that you see online. I'm sure that these organizations have editors and human resource people that try to limit what goes up and what doesn't but it's going to be hard for every single one of those organizations to do so. One problem that some of these organizations would face would be to staff people to do that job. They're not going to want to pay someone just to decide what stories go up on someones blog. They've got bigger fish to fry. Also, gatekeeping can be kind of ridiculous if you look at it. Somebody decides what news stories I'm going to read. That's BS! I'll decide what news stories I want to read. I don't need you to bias the already biased news circuit by putting the stories you want me to read on the internet. If you're going to do that, that's totally fine with me. You just lost readership. When you start losing money to fund your stupid little news organization with your fancy gatekeeper, maybe you'll think twice won't you.