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Media amnesia and the economic crisis
Ian Sinclair talks to Dr LAURA BASU about how the British media ‘forgot’ the real culprits of the 2008 crash and reshaped the narrative of the financial crisis to justify austerity
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Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
EARLIER this year, Dr Laura Basu, currently a researcher with the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, published Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis. In the book, Basu provides a sharp critique of the British media’s coverage of the crisis, analysing 1,133 news items from the Guardian, Telegraph, Sun, Mirror and BBC between 2007 and 2015, and conducting interviews with journalists.
Ian Sinclair asked Basu about how this Media Amnesia relates to public opinion, the importance of Ed Miliband’s positioning of the Labour Party during the crisis, the role of the Guardian and how media reporting can be changed for the better.
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