A debate between Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, and Emily Bell from the Guardian focused on the “trust” problem on the Web 2.0.
Bell first wondered how to maintain a certain level of trust in the news we get, for now we see more and more blogs and online media. “Trust is a nonsense,” she said. “Nobody can earn the trust of an audience only by saying ‘I’m a journalist’.”
She underlined the fact that, contrary to the traditional press, when you write online, “you know that everytime you post something, something’s going to come back”.
Keen - a strong critic of user-generated content, who says unpaid contant puts professional journalists out of work - seemed to get bored.
“The Internet invented ‘trust’,” he said. Then he talked about Second Life (”It’s not life!”). And he concluded: “I’m not against the Internet”. Really?
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