The Media, the Public and the Great Financial Crisis

by Mike Berry (Author)

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  Paperback
  2019

  $28.17

  This book explores the impact of the print and broadcast media on public knowledge and understanding of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. It represents the first systemic attempt to analyse how mass media influenced public opinion and political events during this key period in Britain's economic history. To do this the book combines analysis of media content, focus groups with members of the public and interviews with leading news journalists and editors in order to unpack the production, content and reception of news.
  The early part of the book examines how the banking crisis was reported by Britain's media and the impact of this coverage on public attitudes towards the crisis. Later chapters analyse how the debate over Britain's public deficit was discussed by the print and broadcast media as well how both short and long terms patterns of media socialisation were crucial in legitimating the UK's turn to austerity.