The closely related issue of the journalistic gatekeeper is actually a permutation of the need for internal controls on professional practice. In a traditional newsroom, a story will be read and vetted by at least on editor before being published; the more potentially controversial or problematic the story, the more editors are apt to see it. Online newsroom are full of editors- but as discussed earlier , their jobs consist mainly of adapting stories to the web and turning them around quickly , not fact-checking. Rarely do they serve as gatekeepers in the sense of significantly narrowing down the stories to be disseminated from among those available. This is a strength of the Web - each user hasa far greater opportunity to select stories of individual interest from a vastly increased offering of options - but it is also a weakness. The gatekeeper's function has always been one of quality control, however subjective the assessment of 'quality' might be. Without the gatekeeper, the quantity of the news product increases but its quality is likely to be diluted.