Article note: The little new-media (from the big landscape shift when video got democratized) studio is eventually consumed and dissolved by the gigantic incumbent old media conglomerate.
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.