Andrew Keen wrote a book entitled, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy. He takes aim at the shoddy quality of internet media and news. He claims that blogs and web videos are not up to par, quality wise, with the more experienced and controlled mainstream media. He makes a curious observation about Wikipedia that I think could also serve as a useful tool for Catholic apologetics. Here's an excerpt from a review of the book:
His (Keen's) attack even encompasses one of the web's more widely admired experiments - Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written and edited by anyone who wants to have a go, on the principle that the crowd possesses an aggregate wisdom all of its own. "To my mind Wikipedia is not wise," says Keen. "It's dumb. Not necessarily because all its contributors are dumb, but because if you don't have an editor in charge, and you don't have singular voices, then the intellectual quality of what the crowd produces is very low."
Couldn't the same argument be brought to bear on theological disputes? Keen's take on Wikipedia is a mirror image of the Catholic assertion for Papal primacy over the more democratic approach of Protestants.
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/computingandthenet/story/0,,2130794,00.html
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