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Effective media scrutiny can help mitigate many of the problems that lead to regulatory capture, by helping the polity to become informed and mobilized. But what are the conditions that create effective media scrutiny? And why do we observe so little of it in reality?
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” Justice Louis D. Brandeis

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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (April 1–April 7)

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This week in political economy.       Facebook acknowledged this week that the Cambridge Analytica data breach affected 87 million users (reportedly including 2.7 million Europeans)—37...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 24-March 31)

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This week in political economy.       Still mired in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook’s terrible month became worse this week after BuzzFeed published a 2016...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 17-March 24)

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This week in political economy.     The “techlash” against digital platforms went into hyperdrive this week, as Facebook became increasingly embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 10-March 17)

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This week in political economy.     A federal appeals court voided the Department of Labor's “fiduciary rule,” an Obama-era rule that instructed financial professionals like...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 3-March 10)

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This week in political economy.     ProPublica has created a searchable database of 2,475 political appointees by the Trump administration, the result of “a year...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 24–March 3)

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This week in political economy.       Italy’s elections are on Sunday, and with the polls being inconclusive and the reemergence of former PM Silvio Berlusconi...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 17–Feb. 24)

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This week in political economy.     Is the US economy being strangled by a lack of competition? In the Harvard Business Review, David Wessel provides...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 10–Feb. 17)

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This week in political economy. Yesterday's New York Times editorial: “The terror that has gripped their elected officials … is fear of the wealthy gun...
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Case 2000: How Netanyahu and Israel’s Most Powerful Media Mogul Planned to Subvert the Market for News and Ideas

Guy Rolnik
It doesn’t involve a high-profile American billionaire, and yet of the two cases on which the police recommended indicting Israel’s prime minister, “Case 2000”...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 2–Feb. 10)

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This week in political economy.     India’s competition authority imposed a 1.36 billion rupees ($21.1 million) fine on Google after it found the company guilty...
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