The future of the editor's human touch
JCThoughtscream: Like hell it's dying. Or, rather, like hell I'd let it. The entire purpose of Thoughtscream Media was to find a niche for proper, yet profitable, journalism even amidst the collapse of the previous forms of the industry. The struggles in defining such terms with so little to work off of is one of the reasons why we haven't quite launched yet, but that's simply an indicator as to the magnitude and seriousness we treat the issue (and, really, the /main/ reason's lack of an agreed upon site design... and, er, lack of content backlog to start off with. And... ...okay, so we've got a lot of stuff to do!).Sure, right /now/ "proper" and "profitable" seem like a contradiction in terms - but the era when even print media was wrought with editorial scandals and outright falsehoods is still in the living memory of a rapidly dwindling few (cynical remarks concerning Fox News aside). And the development of the modern editorial board was itself a product of market evolution.An editor's job is, ultimately, to properly vet information, both in forms of its content and its delivery. And there's always a market for trustworthy information. If we don't find a way to bring it to the digital era, and I'm pretty sure we've at least got a decent stab at it, somebody else inevitably will.