Front Page Economics

Suttles, Gerald D.; Jacobs, Mark D.

ISBN 10: 0226781984 / ISBN 13: 9780226781983

Published by University of Chicago Press (edition Illustrated), 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Front Page Economics
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press (edition Illustrated)
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226781984
• ISBN 13: 9780226781983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Illustrated.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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 on our own economically tumultuous times.

About the Authors

Gerald D. Suttles (1932-2017) was an American urban sociologist. He was professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Chicago and adjunct professor of sociology at Indiana University. In 1993, the American Sociological Association awarded Suttles its Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Mark Jacobs is associate professor of sociology at George Mason University.