What Our Words Tell Us

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2. What role do the publishing houses have in all this?

Which books and topics are more/less likely to be published? Which values and ideals are most likely to comprise those topics?

Not only is it not "bottom up" with regard to writers, it is not "bottom up" with regard to publishers. Who owns the publishers?

Then, let's look at where the money is spent for marketing of said works. Which authors, topics, ideas get the bucks and talk circuit face time and promotion?

The corporate owned media includes many of those very same publishing houses.