It All Happened Before

Episode 3: We've Watched Media Get Captured Before


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In this episode of It All Happened Before, Ekin and Burcu use the CBS controversy as a doorway into a much older story — how media capture works precisely because it doesn't announce itself. Drawing on Turkey's experience of press consolidation, where family publishers became state-friendly conglomerates and the transformation felt gradual until suddenly it wasn't, they ask Americans the uncomfortable question: what if you're already inside it? From ownership structures to the slow narrowing of what's sayable, this episode is about learning to recognize something that is designed not to be recognized.

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It All Happened BeforeBy Ekin and Burcu