In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
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Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 162 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9818254-2-7
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"In this volume of essays edited by Anya Schiffrin, media capture is shown to be a growing phenomenon linked both to the resurgence of authoritarian governments as well as to the structural weaknesses presently afflicting media markets. In this environment, political figures and economic elites are colluding to undermine the independence of privately-owned media, and efforts to stop this collusion by activists, regulators, and the international community have proven to be ineffective." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Anya Schiffrin, 1
Toward a taxonomy of media capture / Joseph E. Stiglitz, 9
Competing forms of media capture in developing democracies / Maha Rafi Atal, 19
Media capture in the digital age / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, 33
Clientelism and media capture in Latin America / Mireya Márquez-Ramírez & Manuel Alejandro Guerrero, 43
The state, the military, and the market: Capture in the new Burmese media landscape / Jane Madlyn McElhone, 59
Unfinished business: Tanzania's media capture challenge / Ryan Powell, 83
The gradual takeover of the Czech media system / Martina VojtÌchovská, 97
Managed liberalization: Commercial media in the People's Republic of China / Yiling Pan, 111
Tunisia's media barons wage war on independent media regulation / Kamel Labidi, 125
Exposing Eastern Europe's shadowy media owners / Paul Radu, 137
What is to be done? Options for combating the menace of media capture / Mark M. Nelson, 143
Toward a taxonomy of media capture / Joseph E. Stiglitz, 9
Competing forms of media capture in developing democracies / Maha Rafi Atal, 19
Media capture in the digital age / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, 33
Clientelism and media capture in Latin America / Mireya Márquez-Ramírez & Manuel Alejandro Guerrero, 43
The state, the military, and the market: Capture in the new Burmese media landscape / Jane Madlyn McElhone, 59
Unfinished business: Tanzania's media capture challenge / Ryan Powell, 83
The gradual takeover of the Czech media system / Martina VojtÌchovská, 97
Managed liberalization: Commercial media in the People's Republic of China / Yiling Pan, 111
Tunisia's media barons wage war on independent media regulation / Kamel Labidi, 125
Exposing Eastern Europe's shadowy media owners / Paul Radu, 137
What is to be done? Options for combating the menace of media capture / Mark M. Nelson, 143
