Media Monopoly by the Oligarchs Is Shutting Down Democracy

 

Media Monopoly Fuels Climate Denial George Monbiot November 14, 2025 The Guardian The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich , Illustration: Thomas Pullin/The Guardian   If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it. The technology, money and strategies have all been at hand for years. What stifles effective action is a deadly conjunction: the climate crisis running headlong into the epistemic crisis. An epistemic crisis is a crisis in the production and delivery of knowledge. It’s about what we know and how we know it, what we agree to be true and what we identify as false. We face, alongside a global threat to our life-support systems, a global threat to our knowledge-support systems.