Unless you do treat a film like a painting, eg. New media is new media, and has it's authors, artisans, and true independents, just as film or video does. I'm not suggesting that anything about new media is any kind of poor reflection on film at all. Quite the opposite - they really are very different media. The original point was to describe how the march of technology is as much of a threat to any specific video technology as it is to film.
New media support new creative processes and experiences.
But it will be a great loss if the price of this is that other fundamentally different media are made obsolete, since this is extinguishing unique creative processes and experiences. That's why the Film vs Dv argument is so irritating. There's nothing wrong with either, but one is not a substitute for the other, unless one is only concerned with delivering drama to a market. The world is a labyrinth in which you have to eat your way through, looking for the real big bite, hunted by ghosts with a changing identity.