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- Title
The Media Construction of the Financial Crisis in a Comparative Perspective - An Analysis of Newspapers in the UK, USA and Switzerland between 2007 and 2009.
- Authors
Schranz, Mario; Eisenegger, Mark
- Abstract
This paper focuses on the patterns discerned in the communicative construction of economic crises by the media. The media reporting on the recent financial crisis in 2007-2009 was examined within a country-comparative analysis (Switzerland, UK, USA). It transpires that the threat implicit in the crisis increases to the degree that the media can describe it as a fisystem crisisfi spreading like an epidemic and producing an increasing number of victims. The answer to the question whether the quality of the discourse denotes a fundamental break with the prevailing neo-liberal model of society is no. Given the strong focus of the media reports on single personalities, the demands for radical reforms were largely sidelined in the public debate.
- Subjects
SWITZERLAND; UNITED Kingdom; UNITED States; FINANCIAL crises in the press; GLOBAL Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; NEOLIBERALISM; MASS media; CRISIS rhetoric
- Publication
Swiss Journal of Sociology / Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2011, Vol 37, Issue 2, p241
- ISSN
0379-3664
- Publication type
Article