Billionaire Media Model

Billionaire Media ModelThe Matt Townsend Show • Season 6, Episode 226, Segment 1

Sep 22, 2017 • 51m

Rodney Benson is the Department Chair and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. In July Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of Steve Jobs bought a majority stake in the news organization The Atlantic. This isn’t the first purchase of a news organization by a billionaire in recent months. The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and The Las Vegas Journal are all now privately owned. Rodney Benson talks about the slippery slope of the oligarchy media model.

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