Media Capture How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News Edited by Anya Schiffrin

 Media Capture

How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News Edited by Anya Schiffrin is a new book by Columbia University Press.

This book on journalism offers a very important mirror on the state of this profession seen through the lenses of situations, people, governments, that are keeping information, news, "captured."

The internet that, at first was seen positively because could, theoretically, facilitate the arrival of news has meant, with the time, misinformation, hate, news manipulated or invented for trying to deviate from the reality the minds of people, (see at the voice Covid-19), while the common newmsagazines and magazines started to develop a profound, real crisis because people preferred the net for being informed,using discutible channels sometimes and avoiding the real magazine, newsmagazine, more expensive.

Of course media has been captured before the advent of the net by moguls, people who invested in the news, but that at the same time removed oxygen to the media that they controlled or that they are still controlling.

This book tells the fragility of journalism, analyzing the state of news in several countries, but also reading what it is going on in social medias, taking in consideration giants like Google, Facebook, but also blogs and their death, because of the advent of social medias and still unclear characters; problems of independence and freedom of telling.

This book reveals the fragilities of a profession in high sea, offering a base of discussion for trying to return to see the light after this long tunnel of obscurity.

Highly recommended book.

I thank Columbia for the physical copy of the book.

Anna Maria Polidori