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Front Page Economics by Gerald D. Suttles; with Mark D. Jacobs is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Author

Gerald D. Suttles; with Mark D. Jacobs

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283078498

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology