This is something I just wrote in an email to someone:

“I think critics of ‘our’ generation feel this especially - we grew up reading mags or music coverage that encouraged serendipity or at least a degree of diversity, and so that’s our ideal of music writing, but how to make it work without a captive audience? I would go and buy the NME on Wednesday, and I would first of all read whatever they had on the Stone Roses or Morrissey, and then it was “well I’ve paid 60p for this thing and I’ve not got anything else about music to read, so I might as well look at this 10 out of 10 Jungle Brothers review!”. And every single part of that model of attention beyond “I go to this site to read about the stuff I care about” is broken now! It’s the curse of ‘generation X’ - all our cultural imprinting happened with stuff the net has destroyed.”