Dead Media Beat: the death of television as Warren Ellis knew it

"We exist in a state of cultural fracture, and the cracks are slowly but surely reaching through everything." It's like the man says.

http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/09/start/warren-ellis

*Those cracks felt like "liberating spaces" until there was no money left. Then they really started feeling like cracks. Crevasses. Abysses.

*I'll know that television is really dead when somebody turns on a glossy, well-produced television dramatic series in some semi-public space, and everybody stands up, gets out of their chairs and runs away from it.