Response to "What Is Digital Cinema?"

This article seemed almost angry to me. I felt like Manovich was upset at the changing techniques of cinema. He talks about the history of cinema, and how now the technology is "destroying cinema's identity as a media art". He seems especially upset since he believes animation is terrible, " ... all of this was delegated to cinema's bastard relative, its supplement, its shadow -- animation" I don't understand why he would be upset since he is a new media person. I don't necessarily agree with him the the use of computers to generate images in film is creating cinema to become a part of animation. I think they may be blurred a little bit, but I still think cinema has its own characteristics that make it unique.