It's funny that TechCrunch, a blog turned into a multimillion dollar acquisition from scratch, would assert this. Yet they say, "The fact that the Economist’s

It's funny that TechCrunch, a blog turned into a multimillion dollar acquisition from scratch, would assert this. Yet they say, "The fact that the Economist’s North American circulation has just reached its highest ever level tells us that the audience for quality content isn’t going away." The bar for what used to pass as "quality" is much higher now. You need to bring your A-game to compete with "amateurs" including everyone from armchair pundits to tenured academics. Plus, people have to basically give up on following everything. Gone are the days when you can read a select number of publications to stay updated on the subjects of the day. That's why we're all hanging out here right? We want more filters. When I make time to read The Economist from cover to cover, it's brilliant but after a while I'm drowning so I need to take a break on the shore and just skim headlines on the various aggregators. I'd argue that it's not just high quality content but high quality filters that people want as well.