[ecrea] Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis, new book

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS:

Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis

By Laura Basu

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'A thoughtful and brilliant examination of how mainstream media have so 
completely failed to cover the economy in a manner that encourages 
democratic governance, or a sound economy ... Highly readable, Basu's 
book should be required reading for faculty and students in media 
departments, as well as economics and political science’ – Robert McChesney

'To understand the 'rewriting' of the crisis capitalism brought upon us 
read this book. The author reveals the full iniquity of the media 
transforming common sense into pernicious nonsense' – John Weeks, 
Professor Emeritus of Economics, SOAS, University of London

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About the book:

 From Donald Trump, to Brexit and the resurgence of the far-right 
across Europe, what role has the media played in shaping our current 
political moment?

Following the news coverage of a decade-long crisis that includes the 
2008 financial crash and the Great Recession, mounting public debt, the 
eurozone crisis, austerity and rising inequality, we see that coverage 
is suffering from an acute amnesia about the policies that caused the 
crisis in the first place. Rather than remembering its roots in the 
dynamics of ‘free market’ capitalism, the media remains devoted to a 
narrative of swollen public sectors, out-of-control immigration and 
benefits cheats. How has history been so quickly rewritten, and what 
does this mean for attempts to solve the economic problems?

Going behind the coverage, to decode the workings of media power, Basu 
shows that without a rejection of neoliberal capitalism we’ll be stuck 
in an infinite cycle of crisis.

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Laura Basu is a research fellow in the Media & Communications Department 
at Goldsmiths, University of London, and at the Institute for Cultural 
Inquiry, Utrecht University. She is the editor of The Media and 
Austerity (Routledge, 2018).

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PAPERBACK: APRIL 2018 / 272 PAGES / ISBN 9780745337890/ £24.99

AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK

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