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Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News
From the United States to China and from Brazil to India, an authoritarian approach to news is...
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From the United States to China and from Brazil to India, an authoritarian approach to news is spreading across the world. Increasingly, the media is no longer a check on power or a source of objective information but a means by which governments and leaders can propagate their versions of reality, however biased or false.
Martin Moore and Thomas Colley show how states are battling to control and shape the news in order to entrench their power, evade scrutiny, and ensure that their political narratives are accepted. Combining in-depth analyses of seven countries with a compelling range of stories and characters from around the world, they demonstrate the unprecedented scale and scope of governments' efforts to take control of the media. Dictating Reality details how Xi's China, Putin's Russia, Modi's India, AMLO's Mexico, Bolsonaro's Brazil, and Orban's Hungary have all sought, in their different ways, to exploit news to manufacture alternative realities--and how their methods have taken hold in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other democracies. Combining keen analysis of contemporary world events with years of original research, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how authoritarian leaders use the media, why more and more people are living in different realities, and the ways democracy is under threat.Author: Martin Moore,Thomas Colley
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 10/28/2025
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780231212915
About the Author
Martin Moore is senior lecturer in political communication education and director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King's College London. His books include Democracy Hacked: How Technology Is Destabilizing Global Politics (2018).
Thomas Colley is senior visiting research fellow in war studies at King's College London and senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. His books include Always at War: British Public Narratives of War (2019).Returns Policy
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