Suzanne Harrington: Succession shows how the media can divide and conquer
Salivating with anticipation at bingeing on season three of Succession and wondering what fresh hell the compulsively hideous media tycoon Logan Roy and his unspeakable spawn will unleash on us, you might be reminded of that thing Einstein said in 1949.
I’m not in the habit of memorising Einstein quotes, but it popped up on my Facebook, so I checked in case it was fake news but turns out it’s genuine. He wrote in the first edition of a socialist magazine, Monthly Review, how money “tends to become concentrated in few hands”, resulting in “an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organised political society.”
