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Increasingly, we can’t trust journalists to decipher finance
The Conversation, Vol.4 August 2015
The Conversation Media Group
2015
Abstract
In the fallout of the 2008 global financial crisis, the financial media were criticised for failing to fulfil a watchdog role, for boosting the global asset boom that contributed to the crisis, and for exacerbating the crisis when it happened.
Among the strongest accusations was that financial journalists had been captured by the small coterie of elite sources they used for information, and by a newsroom culture that favoured free markets and encouraged a pro-business attitude.
The corollary of this was that perceived doomsayers and others providing alternative viewpoints and warnings were left out of the debate. While people have called out these trends, there has been little hard evidence measuring the extent of the problem.
Details
- Title
- Increasingly, we can’t trust journalists to decipher finance
- Authors/Creators
- S. Knowles (Author/Creator)G. Phillips (Author/Creator)J. Lidberg (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- The Conversation, Vol.4 August 2015
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Group
- Identifiers
- 991005540472807891
- Copyright
- The Author
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media, Communication and Culture
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Other
- Publisher URL
- http://theconversation.com/au
- Resource Sub-type
- Nonrefereed Article
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