Covering the Great Recession
How the Media Have Depicted the Economic Crisis
October 5, 2009
Citizens may be the primary victims of the economic downturn, but they are not the primary actors in the public depiction of it. Instead, a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression has been covered in the media largely from the top down, told primarily from the perspective of the Obama administration and big business, with coverage reflecting the concerns of institutions more than the lives of everyday Americans.
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Source: Pew Research Center
