Capturing news, capturing democracy: Trump and the voice of America
"This book uses rare interviews and an analysis of private correspondence and internal documents, to explain why and how Voice of America (VOA) became intensely politicized from 2020-2021. It analyzes how political appointees, White House officials and right-wing media influenced VOA-changing i...
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Zusammenfassung: | "This book uses rare interviews and an analysis of private correspondence and internal documents, to explain why and how Voice of America (VOA) became intensely politicized from 2020-2021. It analyzes 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"-- |
Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | viii, 294 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
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Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Actors About the Authors vii ix xi xiii 1. Introduction 1.1 Government capture, from the inside 1.2 International public service media 1.3 Resisting government capture 1.4 Building theory 1.5 Conclusion 1.6 Map of the book 1 7 10 14 16 20 20 2. The Voice of America: A history of conflict 2.1 War, peace, and the McCarthy witch hunts 27 28 2.2 The Cold War and VOA’s Charter 33 2.3 Managerial purges in the Reagan and first Bush administrations 2.4 The firewall and the War on Terror: From the Clinton era to the second Bush administration 2.5 Transferring authority to a single political appointee 2.6 Conclusion 38 44 49 56 3. Capturing public service media around the world 3.1 Government capture and the politicization of the BBC Capturing PSM in Europe Capturing international PSM in Japan and Turkey Journalistic resistance in Slovakia and South Africa Analyzing “messy” capture in a hybrid media system using critical realism 3.6 Conclusion 57 58 64 69 76 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 4. Indirect capture 4.1 Governance capture: “Purge and stack” 4.2 Resource capture and the bureaucratic bottleneck 4.3 Discursive capture: Spies, swamps, and the lost “glory days” ofthe Cold War 4.4 Creating “status threats” through networked discursive capture 4.5 Conclusion 81 87 89 90 98 109 116 123
Vi CONTENTS 5. Direct editorial interventions 5.1 The hot-button issue of government editorials 5.2 False equivalence and the Black Lives Matter protests 5.3 Internal disciplinary capture: Investigating “biased” election reporting " 5.4 Investigating individual journalists and rescinding the firewall rule 5.5 Why self-censorship varied across the network 5.6 Conclusion 126 128 131 138 144 150 157 6. The post-election endgame 6.1 Formalization and centralization 6.2 Intensifying the politicization of VOA’s governance structure 6.3 “Blowing up the newsroom”: The Pompeo incident and its aftermath 6.4 Uncertainty and the January 6 insurrection 6.5 Conclusion 160 7. Resistance strategies and ongoing harm 7.1 Considering resistance 7.2 Resistance strategies used by news staff 7.3 “Hidden transcripts” and bureaucratic sabotage 7.4 Ongoing harm and the need to act 7.5 Conclusion 187 189 194 8. Conclusion 8.1 Capturing VOA indirectly 8.2 Direct editorial influence 8.3 Journalistic self-censorship 8.4 Advancing research into media capture 8.5 Taking action 215 Notes References Index 243 247 279 162 169 173· 179 184 203 208 213 218 223 228 232 235 |
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