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In his blog “Internet con men ravage publishing” John MacArthur has criticized internet journalism and the quality of internet publishing. He agreed with another internet journalism critic Patrick de St.Exupery and believes that whether paid or unpaid, internet doesn’t just reduce the value of writing, it destroys value.

I totally disagree with MacArthur here that internet is reducing the value of writing. It’s giving us the opportunity to know what other people’s view on a particular topic. We are able to share our opinion about writings on the web, which actually gives more value to that particular writing.

He further criticized some of the new Internet lover freelance writers that how they are keeping quiet when their works/writings are being published on the internet for free usage. He suggests the internet writers to put up paywalls on their blogs so that they would get paid for their valuable work. Again I disagree with him about putting paywalls on the writings. Some people really love writing blogs for free. They just want to share their opinion/thoughts with us. If a writer like Macarthur doesn’t want to publish on the internet for free then they shouldn’t. No one is forcing them to write for free. It should be someone’s choice whether they want to post it for free on the internet or not.

In my opinion, Internet is a source of information/knowledge where we shouldn’t be charging to get knowledge. I believe MacArthur should get modernize about the usage of internet and shouldn’t be pessimistic about the practice of free Internet journalism.

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