Certeau's ocean

Michel de Certeau calls the sum of individual producers an ocean in which established players (those who control and charge rent for "space") exist like islands that the flood tide constantly erodes. In the sea of media, the space of players like newspapers is diminished, although their reach, ironically, has never been greater. Will we evolve something like a BBC or CBC that serves as a (nominally) neutral platform for journalism? Will the Times and WSJ end up being "value-added" platforms, selling their ability to package the content of free agents - and paid, in effect, for their discernment? And design magazines? One could picture the Cooper-Hewitt or MoMA filling the void between commercially-driven sites (take your pick) and those conducted more or less voluntarily (often as voices for a city or region that is itself "dispossessed" from the mainstream except as it manages to draw occasional attention to itself as a phenomenon).