https://severinbucher.com/tags/media/Recent content in Media on Severin Bucher | BlogHugoenMon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://severinbucher.com/posts/the-diminishing-quality-of-content/Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://severinbucher.com/posts/the-diminishing-quality-of-content/<p>I keep noticing that most of what I read online is worse than it used to be. There&rsquo;s more of everything than ever, but it&rsquo;s thinner: more articles that say nothing, more confident voices with no expertise behind them, more pages that exist to rank rather than to be read. I wanted to work out why, because I don&rsquo;t think it comes down to one thing.</p> <h2 id="anyone-can-publish-now-and-that-changed-the-filters">Anyone can publish now, and that changed the filters</h2> <p>For most of the last century, getting something published was expensive and slow. A publisher, an editor, a fact-checker, and a typesetter all stood between a writer and an audience. Those people were a bottleneck, and they were also a filter. Plenty of good work never made it through, but most of what did had been checked by someone whose job was to check it.</p>