Who Controls the Controllers? Rebellion and Media in France and Austria
Follow-up to: “Rebellion as Civic Duty: What Austria Can Learn from France” The first article was about the streets — about the difference between a culture that understands protest as a civic duty and one that perceives it as a disturbance. But rebellion does not only take place on the streets. It takes place — perhaps even first — in the media. Or not at all. The question is not only: who takes to the streets? But: who tells the story? Who decides what the public learns? And who pays for it? ...