路易吉·津加莱斯（Luigi Zingales）在2012年时 指出，寡头可以利用媒体所有权来巩固他们的政治地位，利用政治地位确保租金，再用租金为媒体提供资金。
As Luigi Zingales pointed out in 2012, oligarchs can use media ownership to solidify their political positions, which they can then exploit to secure rents from which they can fund media.