connecting*the*dots

Bob Jacobson: …”But as happened before with the printing press, photography, radio, TV, and cable, over time the numbers of content producers and controllers of distribution ceases to be proportionate to the volume of material available over the medium. I’m not saying this is wrong or conspiratorial, though the hegemonists do do their darnedest to preserve their advantages. It’s just human nature. Only, this is about more than human nature. It’s about messing with the media by which most of us come to know the world and our place in it, and to learn from others what their places are. When organic, democratic expression ceases to be free, what we’re left with is paid expression. And paid expression…well, you get what whoever pays for it wants it to be. The new media is the old media.”