Front page economics
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 D. 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
xviii, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780226781983, 0226781984
437186834
The daily press and our collective conscience
The grounding of the economy
The daily news as figurative narratives
Personae and their purposes
Wordscapes and toonland
The annual business cycle and its promoters
The voice of the people
Congress and the courts have their say
Normalizing the economy: popular ideology and social regulation