PUBLISHER’S CORNER
There’s been a lot of news about ‘fake news’ lately. As a publisher, I’d say it is the inevitable outcome of self-publishing. Modern technology has made selfpublishing easy so anyone can publish anything at any time. With no editorial control, no standards of loyalty to the outlet name brand, and no journalistic integrity, the news you read could’ve been published by a serious reporter, your drunk next door neighbor, or a Russian hacker. And with the democracy of social media, it’s not about what’s right or what’s alternative or what’s parody or what’s straight-out fake. It’s all about what grabs the most eyeballs and what goes viral. News outlets don’t write headlines anymore. Web publishers write click-bait. In this era of short-twitterattention spans, few readers read past the today’s headlines…
