【2011】 Front Page Economics
Book 图书名称: Front Page Economics
Author 作者: Gerald D. Suttles, Mark D. Jacobs
Publisher 出版社: University Of Chicago Press
Page 页数: 272
Publishing Date 出版时间: Mar 15, 2011
Language 语言:English
Size 大小:1.6 MB
Format 格式: pdf 文字版
ISBN: 0226781984, 9780226781983
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛,没有该文档
In an age when pundits constantly decry overt political bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news. But the bluntness of such critiques masks the highly sophisticated ways in which the media frame important stories. In Front Page Economics, Gerald Suttles delves deep into the archives to examine coverage of two major economic crashes—in 1929 and 1987—in order to systematically break down the way newspapers normalize crises.
Poring over the articles generated by the crashes—as well as the people in them, the writers who wrote them, and the cartoons that ran alongside them—Suttles uncovers dramatic changes between the ways the first and second crashes were reported. In the intervening half-century, an entire new economic language had arisen and the practice of business journalism had been completely altered. Both of these transformations, Suttles demonstrates, allowed journalists to describe the 1987 crash in a vocabulary that was normal and familiar to readers, rendering it routine.
A subtle and probing look at how ideologies are packaged and transmitted to the casual newspaper reader, Front Page Economics brims with important insights that shed light on our own economically tumultuous times.