Re: Luddite Whining
No, you miss the point completely. Old media was always about content. The quality of the content varied, but it was always about content. Sometimes it was low quality, semi fictional, sometimes it was regurgitated press releases, and sometimes it was genuine high quality journalism, but always real content was generated, which in turn meant overheads. Then the media firms competed with each other primarily on their content. The public being what they are high quality content attracted a lower market than, shall we say mass market content to be kind, but it was always about content.
Mega advertising corps, on the other hand, don't give a flying **** about content. Instead they leech off content creators, and where at all possible get useful idiot amateurs to create the content for free - Wikipedia being a prime example, and Youtube another with its original mix of pirated content and amateur tosh.
And the other problem is that the net has turned out to favour monopoly. The long tail has turned out to be a myth.