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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
Please visit and bookmark the new site. You can search show archives here.
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| With the 2014 Nobel Prize in economics just being awarded to Jean Tirole for his work studying monopolies, today we look into the rise of digital monopoly capitalism in the media industries. We begin and speak with Bob Kohn, a technology lawyer, entrepreneur and investor, about Amazon's domination of the book bussiness. | ![]() |
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| Then we are joined by John Bergmayer, a senior staff attourney at Public Interest, to discuss the upcoming Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger and net neutrality. | ![]() |
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| Finally, we speak with Ethan Zuckerman about the role of Google and the ad-centered web economy. Ethan directs MIT's Media Lab and is the author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection. | ![]() |
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