Yesterday I blogged about Karen Traviss’s gloomy predictions for the future of journalism. Today the BBC reports on a new news aggregation site where users will be asked to vote on whether they believe the stories or not. Rory Cellan-Jones is nervous:

My worry is that sites like NewsCred will become playgrounds for lobby groups and obsessives on issues ranging from the Georgia conflict to the 9/11 conspiracy theories. Isn’t it likely that those with passionate views will rush to judge the credibility of news stories according to their own prejudices, while the rest of the internet population just won’t bother?

The comment thread on the post is quite interesting.