Chapter Three of 'Austerity, the media & the UK public', by Mike Berry, reveals how national news media reports had several key impacts on the response to the 2008 financial crash, not least in
increasing public support for #austerity policies.
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increasing public support for #austerity policies.
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National news media reports:
a) played a key role in establishing the public belief that the deficit was the result of government overspending especially in areas such as welfare and immigration (rather than eg the highly risky deregulation of the financial services)
a) played a key role in establishing the public belief that the deficit was the result of government overspending especially in areas such as welfare and immigration (rather than eg the highly risky deregulation of the financial services)
b) led the public to believe that the deficit was highly dangerous & needed to be dealt with quickly; and
c) limited discussion of responses to the rise in the deficit to minor variations of #austerity policies, which meant that viewers were left unaware of alternatives.
c) limited discussion of responses to the rise in the deficit to minor variations of #austerity policies, which meant that viewers were left unaware of alternatives.
Overall, the chapter finds that press & broadcasting defined the origins, consequences & solutions to the rise in public debt resultant from the 2008 financial crash in a narrow & highly proscribed way, which helped to increase public support for #austerity policies.
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