David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
Has the Internet Killed Good Writing?
By Jill Whalen
September 9, 2007
By Jill Whalen
September 9, 2007
I received a hard copy, glossy Internet magazine in the mail this week. As I was flipping through it, I recognized many of the writers? names from articles I?ve seen in various places online. I stopped at one that was about SEO, and attempted to read it, but found it to be so poorly written, that I couldn?t get through it.
I?m used to most online SEO articles being very hard to read because they?re not written by professional writers. But, for some crazy reason, I was astonished to see the same poor quality writing from an actual magazine! I would certainly expect a glossy magazine to have some sort of editing process before they publish any articles, but apparently they don?t.
I?m not even talking about the content of the articles being poor. The content may or may not have been good ? I?ll never know, because I couldn?t read them!
Has the Internet by its very nature of allowing anyone and everyone to become a ?writer? killed good writing?
I?m starting to wonder.