[Commlist] Capturing News, Capturing Democracy - new book

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-news-capturing-democracy-9780197768488?cc=cz&lang=en&;

"Capturing News, Capturing Democracy"
NEW BOOK BY KATE WRIGHT, MARTIN SCOTT AND MEL BUNCE (Oxford University 
Press)

The book abstract reads:

How did the Trump administration capture one of the world’s most 
important public service news networks?

/Capturing News, Capturing Democracy/ uses rare interviews and an 
analysis of private correspondence and internal documents, to explain 
why and how Voice of America (VOA) became intensely politicised from 
2020–2021.

It analyses how political appointees, White House officials and 
right-wing media influenced VOA—changing its reporting of the Black 
Lives Matter movement, the presidential election, and its contested 
aftermath.

Trump allies took control of the network’s financial and human 
resources, dominated its governance structures, and instigated 
intimidating investigations into journalistic “bias.”

Some journalists tried to resist, but others were too exhausted and 
fearful, particularly those in the organization’s language services.

The book puts these events in historical and international context—and 
develops a new analytical framework for understanding government capture 
and its connection to broader processes of democratic backsliding.

It argues that there is currently too little to prevent a future US 
administration with authoritarian tendencies from capturing VOA and 
converting it into a major domestic news organization. For this reason, 
it uses empirical research to recommend practical ways of protecting the 
network and other international public service media better in future.


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