[patrick]

many of those examples are bad in my opinion. the internet has given us a wider scope on news and information, and alternate sites for news as well. al-quaeda in many peoples opinion doens't even exist (in it's reported state) and is more of a unorganized group than you'd imagine....

anyways, this is diverting from the main point...

I am very suprised that you think things are worse on the internet. I would know about 1/10 of the music that i do know about today, not be able to obtain rare uw bootlegs, unable to order special edition albumns from japan or uk, be reliant on local radio, magazines, friends and movies to introduce me to new music, ...

the list goes on too. do you think that music out there right now is worse than 20 years ago before the internet? i could probably name more albumns that i love from this year (which has been a strikingly good year for music for me) than from the 80's in total... (obviously possibly because some would be fresh in my head vs the others which i have forgotten about temporarily) but i think there is still a point to be made there.