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Complacency and Collusion: A Critical Introduction to Business and Financial Journalism
Keith J. Butterick
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Description for Complacency and Collusion: A Critical Introduction to Business and Financial Journalism
Hardback. A critical look at financial and business journalism and how it has suffered a loss of independence and agency due to corporate pressure. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: KF; KJ; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 384.
Complacency and Collusion focuses on the practice of financial and business journalism, giving compelling explanations for why big business needs the press and why the press needs big business.
The growing passivity and changing bias of Western journalists is widely acknowledged. Across the media, in newspapers, TV, media and the internet, journalism is increasingly hollowed out by writers who are no longer gathering news but rather churning out unsourced information, PR texts and online snippets. Behind this dubious practice is an increasingly invested corporate sector whose stake in the mainstream media as a mouthpiece has exponentially increased ... Read more
Complacency and Collusion focuses on the practice of financial and business journalism, giving compelling explanations for why big business needs the press and why the press needs big business.
The growing passivity and changing bias of Western journalists is widely acknowledged. Across the media, in newspapers, TV, media and the internet, journalism is increasingly hollowed out by writers who are no longer gathering news but rather churning out unsourced information, PR texts and online snippets. Behind this dubious practice is an increasingly invested corporate sector whose stake in the mainstream media as a mouthpiece has exponentially increased ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745332048
SKU
V9780745332048
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About Keith J. Butterick
Keith J. Butterick is director of the Huddersfield Centre for Communication and Consultation Research at the University of Huddersfield and the author of Introducing Public Relations Theory and Practice (Sage, 2011) and Complacency and Collusion (Pluto, 2015). He is an award winning business journalist, magazine editor and former director of a financial Public Relations consultancy.
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