Like I mentioned yesterday in ‘TRADITIONAL MEDIA KILLED IT ALL,’ the quote that got me was, “(podcasting) started as a homegrown endeavor before traditional media got into the game.”
Then I read ‘You Don’t Really Miss Blockbuster‘ by Chris Dalla Riva, and something else hit me between the eyes:
“Blockbuster was also constantly maligned as the corporate behemoth that bowdlerized mom-and-pop video shops.”
Oh, yeah, that’s right. The town I grew up in had several mom-and-pop video stores, one was run by people I knew!
But then Blockbuster rolled in, and the mom-and-pop establishments closed one by one.
It’s like maybe these corporate giants who waltz into our communities don’t have our best interests in mind (see also Conde Nast buying Pitchfork, Bandcamp left in the hands of Epic Games).