Premium-Mediocre Writing

Writing that someone has invested time into polishing/packaging, but ultimately it just goes from mediocre to premium mediocre.

You could estimate that 80% of traditionally publishing writing (esp for magazines) falls into this.

• infotainment, edutainment

More recently there are whole online courses to help people with this.

cf Middle Mind

Though maybe that's just Sturgeon's Law in action, and the price of a social process that does generate the good stuff?

• cf Quantity Beats Quality