Nick Carr, and the NY Times' Jon Pareles (who he quotes, below) don't like the new, more open media environment:

When it comes to producing and, equally important, filtering and packaging creative work, the masses seem every bit as crass and conservative as the corporate overlords they're said to be replacing. Maybe more so, in fact. As Pareles writes:

The open question is whether those new, quirky, homemade filters will find better art than the old, crassly commercial ones. The most-played songs from unsigned bands on MySpace -- some played two million or three million times -- tend to be as sappy as anything on the radio; the most-viewed videos on YouTube are novelty bits, and proudly dorky. Mouse-clicking individuals can be as tasteless, in the aggregate, as entertainment professionals.

There's a phrase the two of them should read until it sinks in: One man's trash is another man's treasure. Supposedly "sappy" music is fairly harmless - why do they care? If the market enjoys music these guys don't like, it's no skin off anyone's nose. How many years has Hollywood been promoting utter dreck through the Oscars, while the rest of us go off to see movies that actually entertain us? Sometimes, escapism is all you really want.