There's a pretty good story to be told here, combined with the Death of Popular Music and the RIAA. In both cases, it looks like people stopped taking any risk

There's a pretty good story to be told here, combined with the Death of Popular Music and the RIAA. In both cases, it looks like people stopped taking any risks. The music industry (at least the Popular Music Industry) started putting out more and more formulaic garbage, b/c it was low risk. The AP stopped doing journalism and moved to a press-release transcription agency. Eventually both started dying. They started looking around for external causes, and found The Internet. Now they're trying to undo the effects of internet in hopes that they'll return to where they were before. Of course, what they have to do is realize that where they were before was due to their risk-taking predecessors' legacies, and where they are now are the results of their own cowardly actions. What they should do is fire themselves and admit that they're cowardly losers.