The Day the Music Died [greatest hits and b sides]

1. Keen elaborates on the death of media institutions radio, televsion, film and, most importantly music.

Radio, for example, traditionally highly populated with teenage listeners, has been seeing a rapid decline in activity as many companies are selling off their radio properties. I agree that the internet is fostering the death of radio as it has now become much easier to play ones-own music collection in the car instead of wading through whatever the radio feels like airing.

Keen goes on to illustrate the death of the print media .Newspapers are continuing to shorten content, the downsize the actual print in exchange for online driven content, by both the news media and the advertising agencies. Honestly I don't see this a death of news media. The print alternatives are however becoming outdated and are simply switching over to the internet, where they can reach the larger demographic/

Telvision is no exception for the "almighty wrath of the internet" according to Keen. For example, NBC Universal began slashing costs in 2006 with their "NBCU 2.0" initiative, which mostly cut jobs and reoriented their news programming around attracting more viewers instead of actual news. Along with the budget cuts, NBC began airing easier/cheaper-to-produce programming such as "Deal or No Deal" instead of original titles like Seinfeld or Friends. Keen sees this as the death of original content. I am inclined to slightly agree. While it's not the apocalyptic picture he's painting, I believe that some of the new programming is lacking in originality. However we have also seen the arrival of other new programs such as "Heroes", or "Lost".
2. Keen's reference to Utopia, "the sheep are devouring men" indicates how the product is destroying the producer and some select few find success. In his grand analogy, he uses YouTube as an example. The relatively small page, sold itself for 1.65 billion dollars to Google, all for a website that gets all of its content from its users. Newspapers such as The New York Times are not as fortunate. Should print media collapse, the paper wouldn't nearly be able to make as much revenue as it does right now strictly online without compromising content.

However most of this conjecture that Keen touts is cautionary, paranoid warnings in fear the worst case scenario DOES occur which in my opinon is a nigh impossibility.