Business Elite Competition or a Common Concern
Journalistic representations of industrial crises in Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7500907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana Jacobsson (0000-0001-7320-6454, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, Gothenburg University, Sweden., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-125 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-670X • E-ISSN: 1469-9699 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1461670x.2016.1164615 |
| OpenAlex | W2318802569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article examines how mainstream news journalism reported a recent industrial crisis in Sweden (2011) and compares it with the journalistic construction of a similar crisis in the late 1970s. Analysis shows that the one-dimensional news coverage today fails to contextualize the crisis, preferring instead to report the surface drama and exalt the competitiveness of the economic elite. In this oversimplified understanding and construction of a crisis, journalism neglects certain aspects and focuses on matters relating solely to the market. The political and labor perspective highlighted in the crisis coverage of the 1970s is missing in more recent reports. The different voices discussing the causes, characteristics, consequences and solutions of crisis in the industry four decades ago have been replaced by several economic or market experts representing broadly the same perspective; a narrow business understanding of what is at stake, how a crisis can be solved as well as by whom. The class aspect, along with the democratic implications when the interests of the working class and the view of industry as an arena for labor are largely neglected by mainstream news journalism, are highlighted in the study
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The discourse-historical approach
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Voices in the crisis
Bankers in the dock
Sharing the Pain or Shouldering the Burden
Upscale” News Audiences and the Transformation of Labour News
Dismantling discourses
The death (and rebirth?) of working-class journalism
Brief History of Neoliberalism
The Transformation of the Swedish Model
The myth of the city trickster
Financial journalism, news sources and the banking crisis
Morals and politics in the ideology of neo-liberalism
Journalism
Neoliberalism in Action
Media meta-capital
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |