How "indie" became a pejorative

[koganbot]

Interchange between me and Tal on the Jukebox; runs similar to my attempts to restate my "PBS" idea to Marc the other day. I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts on how to clarify and/or improve the idea. (Cliffs Notes version of the idea here.)

By the way, Will is doing a terrific job in framing and collating our responses in the best-off. Man's a writer.