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Manufacturing ignorance
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a telling exposure of the role the Establishment media played in peddling its misleading analysis of the 2008 financial crash
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
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Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
The Media, the Public and the Great Financial Crisis
by Mike Berry
(Palgrave Macmillan, £22.99)
MIKE BERRY, from the School of Journalism at Cardiff University, has written a quietly devastating academic examination of the impact of the British print and broadcast media on public knowledge and understanding of the 2008 financial crisis.
Focusing on the October 2008 bank bailouts and ensuing debates about the national deficit and austerity, Berry conducted content analysis, focus groups with the public and interviewed senior journalists producing the news.
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