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Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez and Free Press’ Joseph Torres have a new book out called News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media. The book theorizes about the history of racism in media through an examination of national records.

In the above Democracy Now broadcast, Amy Goodman interviews the two authors. Gonzalez explained: “The media system has never been a free market system per say, the government has played critical roles throughout the history of the development of news and information in the United States in adopting policies that affected how our system developed. The government subsidized many of the technologies that eventually developed whether it was the telegraph, satellite broadcasting, the original research into the Internet. So taxpayers funded a lot of the research and development that created our different media platforms.”