Eoin Higgins: Owned, Gebunden
Owned
- How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left
- Publisher:
- PublicAffairs, 02/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781645030461
- Item number:
- 11893461
- Volume:
- 304 Pages
- Weight:
- 410 g
- Format:
- 216 x 146 mm
- Thickness:
- 27 mm
- Release date:
- 4.2.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
"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 exposâe 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"--