| I don't think the quality of music has gone down, just the people in charge of advertising and selling music on a large scale seem to not agree with my tastes. I personally have no trouble finding good bands because there are a lot of local bands where I live and most of the time you can see them either for free (at some bars or clubs) or for really cheap. Some of them are terrible, some of them are really good, but most of them are a breath of fresh air in the music overwhelming popular today.
For the media in general, I basically consider them, in one word, complacent. They act like they have their figurative finger on the world's figuration pulse and they really almost no idea what is really going on.
For movies, in general, there are a good number of small movie theaters around where I live that play independent films which, in my opinion, seem to be better than most of the huge Hollywood films because they have to make due with less money and more plot and acting. Though I've always liked seeing movies when I could see the actors and not know who they were in real life.
I can't think of any redeeming quality for novels recently written. Though I don't really have much a problem because there's hundreds of years of books to go back on that are quite good. I just find it sad that there hasn't been a book that will be a 'classic' or a 'book of our times' other than something like Harry Potter (which I personally hate).
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