
Downstream: The British Media Is Broken w/ Moya Lothian-McLean & Michael Walker
Novara Media
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The Gates Foundation and the Guardian's Development Wing
In the 1800s Britain when that model moved from, okay, we've got a press which is gate kept because they have to pay all these taxes. The free market completely wiped out radical presses after sort of like 1850. Development of an unfettered free market raised publishing costs in a way that prevented groups of workers or individuals with limited resources from owning newspapers.
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