McArthur views the Internet as a radical, free for all, content distributing nemesis to media production companies. He argues that since  peer production makes so much content free, the quality of the content is written with no form of standardization as that of professionals writers. In essence, he asserts that peer production devalues the art of writing.

He goes further to say that some media businesses are selling themselves short by focusing less on print ads. In my opinion, I view media as a two part phase. The first part is traditional print media, the second part is digital media. McArthur is in an era where we lie in the middle of those two phases. Technology is forcing us to transition to purely digital media, and in time to come, media companies will have to make this transition whether or not they like it.

In another comparison of the Internet’s radicalism, he mentions that the writer Frederic Morton notes that “you can’t download a hug,” but Mark Zuckerberg apparently thinks that you can. To McArthur, I say, Facebook is a means of social interactions, not a replacement for family time.