The Political Content of British Economic, Business and Financial Journalism : a Deficit of Perspectives

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The Political Content of British Economic, Business and Financial Journalism : a Deficit of Perspectives

Title remainder

a Deficit of Perspectives

Statement of responsibility

by Gary James Merrill

Creator

• Merrill, Gary James

Subject

• Business enterprises -- Finance
• Ethnology
• Ethnology -- Europe
• Business enterprises -- Finance
• Journalism
• Journalism
• Europe

Language

eng

Summary

This book assesses the extent to which British news organizations gave exposure and credence to different political interpretations of economics and business news in the decade before the 2008 Financial Crisis. Through the content analysis of some 1,600 news items, this study provides compelling empirical evidence to inform often theoretical debates about neoliberal assumptions in the media. In each of the three pre-2008 case studies - economic globalization, private finance and public services, and Tesco - Merrill finds that the Telegraph, The Times, the Sunday Times and, to varying extents, the Guardian-Observer and the BBC gave limited exposure and credence to ideas from the left of the political spectrum. As such, he builds an important comparative picture of economic, business and financial journalism in the period before the defining event of the decade, the effects of which continue to resonate

Cataloging source

VT2

Dewey number

070.4

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries