Is the US Media Captured? Highlight

Mungiu-Pippidi, meanwhile, thinks the line may have already been crossed. She views the post-Watergate era, in which the US media exercised extraordinary independence and resistance to government pressure, as a historical anomaly. Around the world, Mungiu-Pippidi told me, “media capture, the unavoidable shaping of media contents by private interests, has increasingly become the rule.”