If the Internet was nothing but the newspapers of record online, it would have been a good place to stop. The quality disappeared after the barrier of entry wen

If the Internet was nothing but the newspapers of record online, it would have been a good place to stop. The quality disappeared after the barrier of entry went - social media. At one time, running a blog post was also not exactly trivial, and that would have been a great middle ground between access to publishing and reading.