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Cover -- Capturing News, Capturing Democracy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Actors -- About The Authors -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Government Capture, From The Inside -- 1.2 International Public Service Media -- 1.3 Resisting Government Capture -- 1.4 Building Theory -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 1.6 Map Of The Book -- 2. The Voice Of America: A History Of Conflict -- 2.1 War, Peace, And The Mccarthy Witch Hunts -- 2.2 The Cold War And Voa's Charter -- 2.3 Managerial Purges In The Reagan And First Bush Administrations 2.4 The Firewall And The War On Terror: From The Clinton Era To The Second Bush Administration -- 2.5 Transferring Authority To A Single Political Appointee -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3. Capturing Public Service Media Around The World -- 3.1 Government Capture And The Politicization Of The Bbc -- 3.2 Capturing Psm In Europe -- 3.3 Capturing International Psm In Japan And Turkey -- 3.4 Journalistic Resistance In Slovakia And South Africa -- 3.5 Analyzing Messy Capture In A Hybrid Media System Using Critical Realism -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4. Indirect Capture -- 4.1 Governance Capture: Purge And Stack 4.2 Resource Capture And The Bureaucratic Bottleneck -- 4.3 Discursive Capture: Spies, Swamps, And The Lost Glory Days Of The Cold War -- 4.4 Creating Status Threats Through Networked Discursive Capture -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5. Direct Editorial Interventions -- 5.1 The Hot-button Issue Of Government Editorials -- 5.2 False Equivalence And The Black Lives Matter Protests -- 5.3 Internal Disciplinary Capture: Investigating Biased Election Reporting -- 5.4 Investigating Individual Journalists And Rescinding The Firewall Rule -- 5.5 Why Self-censorship Varied Across The Network 5.6 Conclusion -- 6. The Post-election Endgame -- 6.1 Formalization And Centralization -- 6.2 Intensifying The Politicization Of Voa's Governance Structure -- 6.3 Blowing Up The Newsroom: The Pompeo Incident And Its Aftermath -- 6.4 Uncertainty And The January 6 Insurrection