Sure the landscape is going to change for information media — it already has — but what is happening in media, hopefully, is greater diversification of source rather than domination and centralization. Newspapers, TV, and film don’t need to be replaced by the internet but joined by it. The weak newspapers will fall away and the strong ones will get better. If the lawyers can be defeated, hopefully the stranglehold Hollywood has making bad movies and controlling their distribution will be broken and new films will appear.

Hopefully, this diversity and competition can make them all better but that has yet to be proved. I find the addage “500 channels and nothing to watch” is painfully true with added cable channels — it is all bad and getting worse. Fox is incredibly top-down “controlled” and message-managed and their are trangressions all around, however, I think it argues more for grassroots culture and producers like the ones who make Chasing Windmills.