Front page economics / Gerald D. Suttles ; with Mark D. Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suttles, Gerald D.

Contributor:

Jacobs, Mark D., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial crises--Press coverage.

Financial crises.

Business cycles--Press coverage.

Business cycles.

Economics--Public opinion.

Economics.

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Mass media and public opinion.

Stock Market Crash, 1987--Press coverage.

Stock Market Crash, 1987.

Stock Market Crash, 1929--Press coverage.

Stock Market Crash, 1929.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Press coverage.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The Daily Press and Our Collective Conscience

Chapter 2. The Grounding of the Economy

Chapter 3. The News as Figurative Narratives

Chapter 4. Personae and Their Purposes

Chapter 5. Wordscapes and Toonland

Chapter 6. The Annual Business Cycle and Its Promoters

Chapter 7. The Voice of the People

Chapter 8. Congress and the Courts Have Their Say

Chapter 9. Normalizing the Economy: Popular Ideology and Social Regulation

Methodological Appendix

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613078490

9781283078498

128307849X

9780226782010

0226782018

OCLC:

713010289