Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News — The Dependency Trap
A press can be formally free while becoming increasingly dependent on the institutions that finance, distribute, and technically enable journalism.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News, edited by Anya Schiffrin, this investigation explores how media capture can emerge through ownership, advertising, political pressure, philanthropic funding, and digital-platform dependency.
The volume argues that contemporary capture often operates through softer mechanisms than…
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