The media and financial crises : comparative and historical perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Schifferes, Steve, Roberts, Richard, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The banking crisis and the media. Willful blindness: the media's power problem
  • Why the media got it right
  • The US media and the 2009 stimulus package
  • The British media and the 'first crisis of globalization'
  • From Wall Street to Main Street: Australian finance and business journalism and the crisis
  • Part II. The Euro-crisis and the media. The Irish press, politicians, and the Celtic Tiger economy
  • The Spanish press: no illusions
  • European media views of the Greek crisis
  • Part III. Challenges for the media. What are financial journalists for?
  • The media and the crisis: and information theoretic approach
  • Why the public doesn't trust the business press
  • The mediation of financial information flows: traders, analysts, journalists
  • Paying for crisis news: the dilemmas of news organizations
  • Part IV. The lessons of history. Financial crises and the birth of the financial press, 1825-1880
  • Boom, crisis, bust: speculators, promoters, and city journalists, 1880-1914
  • 'Run on the Bank': covering the 1914 financial crisis
  • The pound and the press, 1919-1972
  • 'Goodbye, Great Britain'? The press, the Treasury, and the 1976 IMF crisis
  • Part V. Media messengers under interrogation. UK financial journalists quizzed by MPs.