The Watchdog That Didn't Bark - The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalis

Looks at the reasons why the mainstream media didn't foresee the eventual 2008 financial crisis.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Access and Accountability
1. Ida Tarbell, Muckraking, and the Rise of Accountability Reporting
2. Access and Messenger Boys: The Roots of Business News and the Birth of the Wall Street Journal
3. Kilgore's Revolution at the Wall Street Journal: Rise of the Great Story
4. Muckraking Goes Mainstream: Democratizing Financial and Technical Knowledge
5. CNBCization: Insiders, Access, and the Return of the Messenger Boy
6. Subprime Rises in the 1990s: Journalism and Regulation Fight Back
7. Muckraking the Banks, 2000–2003: A Last Gasp for Journalism and Regulation
8. Three Journalism Outsiders Unearth the Looming Mortgage Crisis
9. The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Disappearance of Accountability Reporting and the Mortgage Frenzy, 2004–2006
10. Digitism, Corporatism, and the Future of Journalism: As the Hamster Wheel Turns
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Dean Starkman

Product details

• Authors: Starkman, Dean Starkman, Dean (C/o Mullane Literary) Starkman, Starkman Dean
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2014
• EAN: 9780231158183
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15818-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Columbia Journalism Review Boo; Columbia Journalism Review Books; Columbia Journalism Review Books; Columbia Journalism Review Boo
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Press & journalism, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters, News media and journalism, journalism; media studies; communications