إملاء الوقاع .. المعركة العالمية للسيطرة على الأخبار

From the United States to China, from Brazil to India, an authoritarian approach to news is spreading around the world. Increasingly, the media is no longer a tool to check power or a source of objective information, but rather a vehicle that enables governments and leaders to spread their own versions of reality, no matter how biased or false. Martin Moore and Thomas Cooley show how states struggle to control and channel the news to consolidate their power, evade scrutiny, and ensure acceptance of their political narratives. Combining in-depth analyzes of seven countries with a captivating collection of stories and characters from around the world, they show the unprecedented scale of governments' efforts to control the media. Dictating Reality details how Xi Jinping's China, Putin's Russia, Modi's India, Lopez Obrador's Mexico, Bolsonaro's Brazil, and Orbán's Hungary, each in their own way, sought to exploit the news to manufacture alternative facts, and how their methods took hold in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other democracies. Combining careful 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 live in different realities, and the ways in which democracy is under threat.