'Have the internet killed photography?'

For those who have read Andrew Keen's 2007 book - The Cult of the Amateur; How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture would understand this notion. In the book, Keen argued that today's internet is responsible in the death of many of our (..read Modern western) cultural icons naming Music in particular. It is somehow true to such extent that many have considered the late Micheal Jackson "The last pop king". What Is evident is that the internet have not killed off music completely. Music Is ever more popular and assessable as ever before with MP3 sharing and portable players. What is greatly diminished is the financial power of music. Micheal Jackson may not be the last pop king but he is certainly the last pop millionaire. Music, argued Keen have become liberalized until it lost it's economic potential that few are willing to become professionals against the growing crowd of amateurs.
What this have to do with photography?
As a matter of fact photography, like all modern art form have undergone serious transformations since the advent of the Internet. No longer photography is confined to the darkly projection rooms and cheap photo-albums. Instead the digital boom have liberated photography to such extent it ceased to become a geeky hobby to a global lifestyle. Just walk anywhere in any city and chances are you will encounter throngs of snapshooters clicking.
If this is so then why would anyone consider photography dead?
Photography, like music had suffered form the same 'financial death'. Even worse photography was never really a profitable art-form as music was. How many photographer millionaire can you name? The liberalization of arts through the internet have empowered the amateur artist to a level that even professionals of the past can only dream. Today many pro-photographers complain of dwindling numbers of assignments due to a rising market of dirt-cheap amateur work. Worse even, the general quality of amateur work have risen to such extent that a pro have no advantage other than a hard-earned network of contacts.
Photography never died form the internet's assault. It only grew stronger and healthier.
Only that now the pie had to be divided to more plates.