Is parkridge47 a Credible Source?

Cheskin's blog is talking as well about crowdsourcing. I particularly like the final conclusion:

"I think the challenge of journalism will become more a matter of editing and selecting the information to present from a wide range of sources, reporters being only one of them. What readers want from a newspaper or information site is intelligently presented sifting of the masses of information out there, coming from an identified point of view."

So anyone can write anything and it's up to the newspapers to bring order to the chaos? That's no small task. In a way, that's what (good) reporters have been doing all along. Their traditional sources, however, where clearly labeled as topical experts, spokespeople, and individuals with a clear involvement with the story in question (eye witnesses, neighbors, etc.). This labeling system is going away if people like parkridge47 are instrumental to a story. I guess we all --not just reporters -- will have to learn to deal with this development.