Complacency and collusion : a critical introduction to business and financial journalism / Keith J. Butterick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butterick, Keith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism, Commercial--Moral and ethical aspects.

Journalism, Commercial.

Journalism, Commercial--Great Britain.

Journalism, Commercial--United States.

Journalism--Objectivity.

Journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : PlutoPress, [2015]

Summary:

"In Complacency and Collusion, Keith J. Butterick draws on extensive experience as a journalist and scholar to show why financial and business journalism is so often toothless. He offers compelling explanations for why big business needs the press - and vice versa - and presents piercing analyses of the inadequacies of reporting in such major outlets as the Economist and the Financial Times, showing how those failures are rooted in the close relationship between businesses and those covering them. He concludes with a reflection on what the growth and spread of a complacent, complicit corporate journalism will mean for the future of a truly free media."--Amazon website.

Contents:

The origins of business reporting and early crises

The Economist, The Times and railway mania

New journalism, the Daily Mail and Charles Duguid

Harry Marks, Financial News and the Financial Times

The crash of 1929 and Keynes

The emergence of modern financial journalism

The 2008 financial crisis

The structure of modern financial and business journalism

Ideology, business discourse, news values

Financial communication and financial PR

Financial journalism: its role in the creation of economic paradigms

The future of financial and business journalism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 3, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index.

ISBN:

1-84964-836-0