Downloading disaster: BBC news online coverage of the global financial crisis

Schifferes, Steve; Coulter, Stephen

doi:10.1177/1464884912460171

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“…By 2012, the metaphors used referred to the EU as a mechanism that needed to be fixed (Bickes, Otten, Weymann) Again, the BBC was viewed as more neutral. Unlike the popular press, the BBC was less alarmist, did not frame the crisis as a “scandal” and did not assign blame to individuals (Schifferes and Coulter ).…”

Section: Critiques Of the Press In Light Of The Crisismentioning

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The Press and the Financial Crisis: A Review of the Literature

Schiffrin¹

2015

Sociology Compass

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In recent years, a growing amount of scholarly interest has focused on the nature of the business/financial press and how it covers key economic events. Some of the literature examines the failings of the business press and its focus on narrow, short-term events instead of analytical writing that educates the public about macroeconomics, including long-term trends. Other studies have looked at how these tendencies affected press coverage before and during the 2008 financial crisis. As would be expected, the crisis caused an increase in writing about the business/financial press. Initially, the scholarship examined whether the media should have seen the crisis coming and questioned why journalists hadn't done a better job covering it. Other scholars, however, looked at the nature of the coverage itself vis-à-vis a larger discussion of how economic issues are framed. Much of the debate mirrored points made in previous analyses on the shortcomings of the business and financial press. They argue that more -or more accurateinformation necessarily changes outcomes and tend to make normative judgements about the quality of journalism coverage studied.

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Section: Critiques Of the Press In Light Of The Crisismentioning

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The Press and the Financial Crisis: A Review of the Literature

Schiffrin¹

2015

Sociology Compass

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“…Debate is ongoing as to how well the media fulfilled its role in holding financial elites to account in the period leading up to the financial crisis. Financial journalists have been strongly criticised and have also engaged in a degree of self-criticism -for their failure to report the banking crisis in advance (Doyle, 2006;Schifferes and Coulter, 2013;Starkman, 2009;Tambini, 2010). In the sections that follow, we examine from what perspective the first major event of the Irish banking crisis was discussed by media sources selected by two leading news programmes.…”

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Voices in the crisis: The role of media elites in interpreting Ireland’s banking collapse

Rafter

2014

European Journal of Communication

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This article focuses on the experts chosen as sources in radio news coverage at the start of Ireland's financial crisis in 2008. The study examines which source categories were afforded opportunities to discuss this major international news story at the start of the European financial crisis. Access to these news programmes allows guests to shape public discourse, while the range of voices influences the character of wider policy debate. We find an elite-orientated coverage with official sources having strongest access in the 3-month period after the announcement of the controversial bank guarantee. While there was a marked business elite focus in sources selected, we also find strong evidence of 'interpretative journalism' in the presence of reporters as programme guests. There was a very clear gender bias. The results raise important issues about the nature of democratic debate in a mediated political environment as the selection of a narrow range of voices limits alternative perspectives in public debate.

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“…Por su parte, Schifferes y Coulter (2012), en referencia al estudio de la cobertura online de la BBC, resaltan que ésta no fue tan superficial como a veces se supone.…”

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Alarma y alarmismo: medios de comunicación y crisis económica

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Vara-Miguel

2014

Estud. Mensaje Period.

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ResumenLa actual crisis económica mundial está generando buen número de estudios sobre su cobertura perio dística. Una de las ideas más recurrentes es que en los años previos a la crisis los medios de comunica ción fueron incapaces de alertar sobre los riegos que existían, y que después, ya durante la crisis, tienen una visión alarmista y simplificadora de la actualidad. En este artículo se hace un repaso y se valora la investigación realizada sobre estas dos acusaciones. La principal conclusión es que no existe consenso sobre la valoración de la actuación de los medios, ni antes de la crisis, ni después. Palabras clave: crisis económica, crisis financiera, periodismo económico, cobertura mediática, crítica del sistema de medios "Alarm" and "alarmism": media coverage of the economic crisis AbstractThe current global financial and economic crisis is generating a good number of studies about its media coverage. One of the recurring ideas is that in the years before the crisis the media were unable to warn of the risks that exist in the financial system, and during the crisis, they are simplistic and alarmist. In this paper we review expert opinions and recent studies that address those two questions. The main conclu sion of this paper is that there is no consensus on the assessment about media journalistic performance, before the crisis, or after.

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Downloading disaster: BBC news online coverage of the global financial crisis

Cited by 35 publications

References 28 publications

The Press and the Financial Crisis: A Review of the Literature

The Press and the Financial Crisis: A Review of the Literature

Voices in the crisis: The role of media elites in interpreting Ireland’s banking collapse

Alarma y alarmismo: medios de comunicación y crisis económica

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