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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
A Hidden Theory in Financial Crisis Journalism? : The Case of Norway
:
The Case of Norway
Contributor:
Bjerke, Paul;
Fonn, Birgitte Kjos
imprint:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015
Published in:Nordicom Review
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/nor-2015-0020
ISSN:
2001-5119
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>
<jats:p>The present article analyses press coverage of the dramatic finance crisis and the ensuing European debt crisis in Europe, in three decisive periods. The authors conduct quantitative and qualitative content analyses of two major mainstream Norwegian newspapers, <jats:italic>Aftenposten</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Dagbladet</jats:italic>, employing concepts and methods from framing theory, to analyse coverage in the framework of two contesting schools in economics.</jats:p>
<jats:p>The study finds traces of discussions of finance brokers’ ethics and some discussions of governmental regulations that made the 2008 crisis possible, but few indications of a basic discussion of the system as such. The authors conclude that the crisis was framed more as a superficial, short-term problem (as per a mainstream, neoliberal theory of economics) than as a deeper and long-term system problem (as a more critical ‘political economics’ theory would have held).</jats:p>