Honesty in “old media”

So BBC Newsnight said something about file sharing and theft. A bunch of howling geeks write in demanding the heads of the people who wrote the line. BBC’s self-described “resident übergeek” was wheeled in to [set the record straight](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4758636.stm)  . He also took the opportunity to examine the relationship of old media to the Internet. He sums it up quite eloquently and with surprising frankness:

… we’re totally scared of new media, because new media is railways and we’re canals, and you all just know how that’s going to end.

So we seek to equate the internet with all bad things to scare you off it. At some corporate freudian level, there’s some truth to that accusation.

And I love how BBC Television refers to itself as “old media”. How about those dinosaurs radio and newspapers?