{"id":27607,"date":"2017-11-04T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27607"},"modified":"2017-11-04T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:21:00","slug":"media-capture-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27607","title":{"rendered":"Media Capture in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-8 large-offset-2 xlarge-7 columns article__title article__title--main u-mb-se\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/media-capture-in-the-digital-age-by-anya-schiffrin-2017-08\">Media Capture in the Digital Age<\/a><\/h3>\n<p data-line-id=\"1f8bf0835b4448aca792a582be970637\">NEW YORK \u2013 The last couple of years have not been good for freedom of expression. The governments of Poland, Hungary, and Turkey have become increasingly authoritarian and \u2013 like leaders in the Balkans, China, and Russia \u2013 increasingly eager to control public discourse. In the United States, too, President Donald Trump relentlessly attempts to discredit the news media, and his administration is unprecedentedly inaccessible to the press.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inlay inlay--slide slide__container show-for-medium editorpick-container\">\n<article id=\"editor-pick-59fccc8b78b6c704483a80b6\" class=\"listing slide \" data-url=\"trump-powell-fed-selection-politicization-by-joseph-e--stiglitz-2017-11\" data-page-area=\"editorpicks\"><\/article>\n<div class=\"inlay__controls\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<div class=\"flex button__group slide__nav\">The age of censors physically redacting newspapers, as I have seen in Vietnam and Myanmar, is mostly over. But, as recent developments show, press freedom remains highly vulnerable, as governments and \u201cvested interests networked with politics,\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.cz\/books?id=quATuRavYgoC&amp;pg=PA91&amp;lpg=PA91&amp;dq=%E2%80%9Cvested+interests+networked+with+politics,%E2%80%9D&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=cGb0j7miZp&amp;sig=7MEbLKgIqoF0gePpLktC3qJEbZo&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjRydTU5o3VAhXLZVAKHRMkB2QQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&amp;q=%E2%80%9Cvested%20interests%20networked%20with%20politics%2C%E2%80%9D&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">words<\/a> of the political scientist Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, engage in a kind of soft control that can be described as \u201cmedia capture.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p data-line-id=\"4db0e2d727ac4048ab4fef767fcc19cb\">Economists used the term \u201ccapture\u201d after the financial crisis of 2008 to describe how regulators, who often came from (and returned to) the industry they were supposed to oversee, failed to police the sector properly. Media capture works in much the same way, with political leaders either owning media outlets outright (think of Italy\u2019s Silvio Berlusconi) or ensuring that media leaders are loyal to them, whether through cronyism or punishment.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"f77d54ab178247fbb9037331a6c143bf\">One of the first orders of business for Poland\u2019s far-right government, led unofficially by Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski, was to adopt a new media law allowing it to hire and fire the heads of public broadcasting networks. In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s government has jailed critical journalists \u2013 such as the well-known columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/sep\/11\/brothers-critical-turkish-regime-arrested-after-tv-programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ahmet Altan<\/a> and his brother Mehmet, a professor \u2013 and closed down or seized control of media companies, using fear to shape reporting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Capture in the Digital Age NEW YORK \u2013 The last couple of years have not been good for freedom of expression. The governments of Poland, Hungary, and Turkey have become increasingly authoritarian and \u2013 like leaders in the Balkans, China, and Russia \u2013 increasingly eager to control public discourse. 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