The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical Perspectives [Hardcover]

Editors Introduction  Overview: Soothsayers of Doom?  PART I The Banking Crisis and the Media 1. Willful Blindness: The Media's Power Problem 2. Why the Media Got It Right 3. The US Media and the 2009 Stimulus Package 4. The British Media and the First Crisis of Globalization 5. From Wall Street to Main Street: Australian Finance and Business Journalism and the Crisis PART II The Euro-Crisis and the Media 6. The Irish Press, Politicians, and the Celtic Tiger Economy 7. The Spanish Press: No Illusions 8. European Media Views of the Greek Crisis PART III Challenges for the Media 9. What Are Financial Journalists For? 10. The Media and the Crisis: An Information Theoretic Approach 11.Why the Public Doesnt Trust the Business Press 12. The Mediation of Financial Information Flows: Traders, Analysts, Journalists 13. Paying for Crisis News: The Dilemmas of News Organizations PART IV The Lessons of History 14. Financial Crises and the Birth of the Financial Press, 18251880 15. Boom, Crisis, Bust: Speculators, Promoters, and City Journalists, 18801914 16. Run on the Bank: Covering the 1914 Financial Crisis 17. The Pound and the Press, 19191972 18. Goodbye, Great Britain? The Press, the Treasury, and the1976 IMF Crisis PART V Media Messengers Under Interrogation 19 UK Financial Journalists Quizzed by MPs

The Media and Financial Crises provides unique insights into the debate on the role of the media in the global financial crisis. Coverage is inter-disciplinary, with contributions from media studies, political economy and journalists themselves. It features a wide range of countries, including the USA, UK, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Australia, and a completely new history of financial crises in the British press over 150 years.

Editors Steve Schifferes and Richard RobelÓd