What has happened down here is the winds have changed
Not sure who this guy is but he seems to have completely missed the point about what Fiske was saying. Sure the internet has heralded a new paradigm but that doesn't mean that we have to just accept the negatives. And the negatives with the internet are just as severe as the positives.<p>Go spend time on any politics forum for example and it is downright scary. Conspiracies run rampant and are unchecked, experts are personally vilified and viciously attacked and facts come second to feelings and opinions. And all evidence to date suggests that this is not helping society but actually making it more polarised and less cohesive.<p>And exactly the same thing has happened in other fields e.g. climate change. Legitimate criticism is always useful and welcomed but it needs to be constructive.