TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higgins,Eoin
TI  - Owned: how tech billionaires on the right bought the loudest voices on the left 
SN  - 9781645030461 (hardcover)
AV  - PN 4867.2 H636o 2025
U1  - 071/.3 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Bold Type Books
KW  - Journalism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Periodismo
KW  - Historia
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Siglo XXI
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Aspectos políticos
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Ownership
KW  - Rich people
KW  - Influence
KW  - Objectivity
KW  - Objetividad
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index; Part one: Freed speech -- "Unclaimed territory" -- "We're out here doing shit" -- "Empowered for the first time" -- "Time to make the switch" -- "I thought we were doing great reporting" -- "There's nobody like the people in this room" -- "His editorial voice will be his own" -- Part two: Devils' advocates -- "Don't go out like a sucker" -- "We don't like Nazis either...But..." -- "Playing God with everyone else's lives" -- "The 'ladder of oppression'" -- "Mind Virus" -- "LOL. pass." -- "Hard for me to change my mind" -- "Exposed as frauds"
N2  - "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. Right-wing billionaires like Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk use their wealth to fund journalists-like Taibbi and Greenwald-who exploit the failings of traditional journalism and social media. This unholy alliance has undermined the very idea of an independent and fact-based press while ostensibly standing up for principles of liberty and free speech. A biting exposé of journalist greed and tech-billionaire ambition, Owned follows the money, and offers a chilling portrait of the future social media and news landscape, empty of all critique, except for newly empowered right-wing commentators"--
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