Today's New York Times features an article on Harry Potter fandom and its uneasy truce with the franchise that inspired it. It includes some brief mentions of fanart and fanfiction, and also this: "Before the Harry Potter movies started breaking the first of many records, it was perhaps easier to believe that mass culture is something consumers largely experienced top down, like the big infantilized blobs in “Wall-E,” unthinkingly gulping whatever they’re fed."

Um, really guys? Have you never been to a Star Trek convention? Or is that just not mass culture enough for you?