I’d like to offer Konstantin Kisin a dose of optimism. As Kisin feels his high hopes for the era of new media slipping away, the predictable costs of democratizing journalism are still firmly outweighed by the benefits.
Writing this week on the debate Joe Rogan hosted between Douglas Murray and Dave Smith, Kisin reflected on his own excitement about the dissolving power of legacy media.
“After all, what could go wrong with ‘democratizing information’?” he asked. “Well, as it turns out, quite a lot.”
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Kisin argued that “incentive structures and thought patterns we typically associate with the entertainment business are not the same as those we expect to see in journalism or academia.”
“Just as the assumptions of the elite class were proved wrong by the actions
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