Evolution of every medium

Technicians who invented it, run it

Technicians with taste, leverage it

Artists take over from the technicians

MBAs take over from the artists

Bureaucrats drive the medium to banality

TV used to be driven by the guys who knew how to run cameras and transmitters. Then it got handed off to the Ernie Kovacs/Rod Serling types. Then the financial operators like ITT and Gulf + Western milked it. And finally it's just a job.

Same thing happened to oil painting and it'll happen to your...