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The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism

By Dean Starkman

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780231536288
DOI
10.7312/star15818
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1236977 bytes)
Edition
Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Pages
368\384
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 20:54:12

Description

In this incisive postmortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. Framing his analysis in a broad argument about journalism itself, Starkman divides the profession into two competing approaches—access reporting and accountability reporting—which rely on entirely different sources and produce radically different representations of reality. He concludes with a critique of digital-news ideology and corporate influence, which threaten to further undermine investigative reporting, and he shows how financial coverage, and journalism as a whole, can reclaim its bite. How mainstream business news failed its readers and what it means for the future of the profession.

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