Even if that wasn't the case, having popular media isn't bad. It's a gateway to the rarefied, less accessible parts of the medium that everyone goes through. No

Even if that wasn't the case, having popular media isn't bad. It's a gateway to the rarefied, less accessible parts of the medium that everyone goes through. No one starts out watching arthouse, reading Kierkegaard, or programming in untyped lambda calculus.