The debate over the democratization of the media is nothing new. In fact, this kind of controversy has dogged writers since the days of quills and inkwells. Ernest Hemingway, were he alive today, might ask the blogging masses to consider his 'iceberg principle':
"If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of the iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. The writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing."
On the other hand, many of our literary greats were incredibly prolific and varied in their writing. Consider the output of Victorian heavyweights such as Charles Dickens and, er, Sir Richard Burton.
My two cents? I think my heart would love to fall for Iain Dale to be right, but my head can't help but side with
After all, if information is currency, then third-hand-information is the New Zealand Dollar.
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