The Onion interviews Samuel R. Delany.

And I think we tend to forget that the media is a huge business. As such, it functions in the larger society as big businesses do. It promotes the ideas that are useful to big businesses, and by extension, are deleterious to small businesses. “Bigger is better.” It’s very hard for the media not to say that, even when it’s trying to. And I think a lot of those ideas do come from the media. Within the circle of the media, I don’t think there’s any way to get around that.

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