UK is still well short of US levels of media polarisation (thanks mainly to the BBC 🙏), but the gap is narrowing and we’re already at a point where millions of people can be indignant about a massive scandal that’s all over the[ir] media, while millions of others are barely aware of its existence.

A decision matching somehow with her former program, but lighter than what she was praising:

youtu.be/OtBMWYnJBTk?...

The process of capture unfolds in 5 stages:

Barrier Weakening (Gatekeeper failure)
Legitimisation & Normalisation
Adoption by Elite Actors
Restructuring of Institutions
Entrenchment & Epistemic Closure

I am desperately waiting for a story that mentions that once upon a time Trump was impeached for threatening to withhold congressionally appropriated military aid from Ukraine unless they scratched his back.