The academic peer review debate has strong parallels to the social-media news debate -- As traditional newspapers/ TV channels are no longer gatekeepers of publ

The academic peer review debate has strong parallels to the social-media news debate -- As traditional newspapers/ TV channels are no longer gatekeepers of publication, we have given up a level of vetting in exchange for freedom-from-censorship. But that puts an onus on consumers -- it's not right for consumer to accept everything they see with the same level of default trust they had before. Consumers still must "consider the source", and society to create an effective replacement for the editorial filters we are discarding. see also: "web of trust"