Owned : how big tech on the right bought the loudest voices on the left
Higgins, Eoin2025
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A cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape. Matt Taibbi used to take on the rich and powerful, but today, his reporting is crafted to please grievance-addicted American conservatives. Glenn Greenwald, whose reporting on the Snowden leaks arguably changed the course of history, has similarly taken a hard right turn. Yet these political transformations of journalists formerly associated with the left did not happen in a vacuum. The new mouthpieces of the right are paid and disseminated by an emerging 'alternative' media ecosystem, funded by a cohort of billionaires whose goal is to censor critics, so these new plutocrats can pursue their businesses - and personal vendettas - entirely unimpeded. 'Owned' is the story of the underreported collaboration between the new wealth and the new journalism.
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Author:
Higgins, Eoin, author
Imprint:
New York : Bold Type Books, 2025.
Collation:
304 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781645030461 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
071.3
Language:
English
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BRN:
5421142