But personally, I think it’s a shame that one of the last bastions of good journalism has to resort to a reader poll asking if it’s OK to call out bullshitters on their bullshit.

Too many people believe that neither can live while the other survives. Except in this case, Voldemort (Amazon) is absolutely going to win.

We need to reframe the debate entirely from one of economics and giant corporations squashing the little guy to one of consumer culture versus artistic culture.

All too often these battles (and why is everything an attack, battle, war) are framed as corporations killing jobs. As sad as it is, I don’t think enough people really care. We want stuff cheap.

And the bigger problem which these skirmishes needlessly distract from, I think, is that people just generally read less these days. Don’t you think? If we keep fighting an Internet vs. brick-and-mortar argument we’re not going to perfect the reading experience on digital devices, which is exactly where the next generation is going to be. It won’t even occur to them to go to a special store that sells books. What an abstract idea that’ll be. And we’ll lose an entire generation to Glee successors.

Thought you’d enjoy that. I got here through the ‘media’ tag in WordPress and am glad to see you have a healthy disdain for the absurdist stuff that passes for analysis.

Also – can I say ‘impactful’ here? CNN does – all the time.