Certainlyscoring some points. Yes, radios sit on shelves. Yes, TV licensing fees pay for BBC websites. And yes, the internet will besomething different. However, it seems unlikely the internet will sit quietly on the shelf in the corner.
Radio keeps pushing outcontent, blurbing away in the corner.
As you listen to radio, it disappears in real-time. It's gone, with no place to retrieve thepassing packages of information from. Or goonline and search for text or hope to find a sound archive which will replay on demand. As often with web developments, the new tool with comparably poor quality initially attracted anumber of small media practitioners and activists, leaving the big media corporations behind. To those small initiatives, thearchive became crucial.