Nice to see someone sharing my sensibilites.

Technologies like television, radio & the internet are always going to be around & will inevitably be used to push the interests of those with power onto the wider public.

That's kinda true, but also a little bit misleading. They most likely won't go away, but can be made obsolete. Like, how many people still use morse code nowadays? I have some hope in new technologies focused on decentralized or federated designs. Consider this fact: nowadays with a very small investment even a single person can start printing his own newspaper, something that is a fairly recent phenomenon. You don't need to understand the printer to be able to use it print whatever you want. Nowadays people also have the technology that lets them record, edit and transmit video files. The issue is, there is a lack of platform to reach others, with the exception of few heavily centralized sites controlled by california. So since everyone already has those damn smartphones, what needs to happen is some system that allows for sharing and finding those things easily. And maybe that even can be done on software side. Tho I'm a tech brainlet, so this is as far as my understanding goes. I do have some hope tho. The smartphones already revolutionized access and usage of the internet, and they have the potential to do something with the current centralization problem.