Media Capture and Control
The Media Capture and Control capture lane traces 618 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1836–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-12-08 | China Lobby Intensifies Campaign After Nationalist Retreat to Taiwan - Alfred Kohlberg Funds Propaganda Alfred Kohlberg · Chiang Kai-shek · T.V. Soong · Henry R. Luce · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1948-01-27 | Smith-Mundt Act Authorizes State Department Propaganda Apparatus - Voice of America Expands Harry S. Truman · Karl E. Mundt · U.S. Congress · State Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1946-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Massive Anti-Union Propaganda Campaign After Strike Wave National Association of Manufacturers · National Industrial Information Council · General Motors · U.S. Steel · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1945-11-19 | Truman Proposes National Health Insurance, AMA Mobilizes Unprecedented Opposition Campaign Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Morris Fishbein · Robert Taft · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1936-01-25 | Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Smith Delivers Vitriolic Anti-Roosevelt Speech at Liberty League Dinner Al Smith · American Liberty League · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Jouett Shouse · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1935-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Unprecedented Multi-Million Dollar Anti-New Deal Propaganda Campaign National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Lund · Du Pont · General Motors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1934-08-22 | American Liberty League Founded by Du Pont Family and Corporate Elite to Oppose New Deal Irénée du Pont · John Jacob Raskob · Jouett Shouse · Al Smith · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1929-03-31 | Bernays "Torches of Freedom" Campaign Uses Feminism to Sell Cigarettes Edward Bernays · American Tobacco Company · George Washington Hill | confirmed | |
| 1927-09-18 | CBS Founded as Radio Broadcasting Oligopoly Takes Shape William Paley · Columbia Phonograph Company · Arthur Judson · Paramount Pictures | confirmed | |
| 1926-11-15 | NBC Created as RCA Establishes Radio Broadcasting Monopoly David Sarnoff · Radio Corporation of America · General Electric · Westinghouse · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1924-01-15 | National Industrial Conference Board Coordinates Corporate Anti-Union Propaganda National Industrial Conference Board · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Plan Association | confirmed | |
| 1923-01-01 | Edward Bernays Publishes "Crystallizing Public Opinion" Launching Modern PR Industry Edward Bernays · American Tobacco Company · Sigmund Freud | confirmed | |
| 1922-11-01 | Scripps-McRae League Renamed Scripps-Howard as Second-Largest Newspaper Chain Consolidates Power E.W. Scripps · Roy W. Howard · Robert Scripps · Scripps-Howard Newspapers | confirmed | |
| 1920-01-01 | Hearst Newspaper Empire Reaches 28 Papers Controlling One in Four American Readers Through Yellow Journalism Tactics William Randolph Hearst · Hearst Communications | confirmed | |
| 1919-09-22 | Great Steel Strike Crushed Using Red Scare Propaganda, Palmer Raids American Federation of Labor · United States Steel Corporation · Elbert H. Gary · Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-04-13 | Committee on Public Information Created: Wilson Establishes Federal Propaganda Machine President Woodrow Wilson · George Creel · Secretary of State Robert Lansing · Secretary of War Newton Baker · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1898-02-15 | USS Maine Explosion - Yellow Journalism Manufactures War Fever William Randolph Hearst · Joseph Pulitzer · New York Journal · New York World · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1836-05-26 | House Gag Rule Suppresses Antislavery Petitions, Demonstrating Slave Power's Congressional Capture Henry L. Pinckney · John Quincy Adams · U.S. House of Representatives · American Anti-Slavery Society · +1 | confirmed |