The Internet doesn’t need editors. The Internet is the editor
: Ann Moore, CEO of Time Inc., appeared on a Fortune panel about media consolidation and said:
The consolidation of the media is not as big a concern to me as the proliferation of unchecked media on places like the web. And that scares me more than anything.
Let’s get this straight again: The media online is far from unchecked; its ass is fact-checked to hell and back by its own audience.
UPDATE: Answering a few questions in the comments. No, I am not calling Ken Layne an ass. I’m sure some have. But I am not. I am trying to give him credit for his legendary line that we, the online army, fact check your ass, big media and big pundits and big politicians. So I linked to him from the word “ass,” thinking myself quite clever. But let it be known that Ken Layne has many allies watching out for him. I apologize. We fact-check your thigh, how’s that?
