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Television news and the economy: inflation in Britain

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

Peter Goddard

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

This study looks at television coverage of the economy through analysis of the issue of inflation. A year-long corpus of material from the BBC and ITN is surveyed. The focus is on the way this medium handles explanations of the causes of inflation — and on the political implications that follow. The agenda that emerges is broadly based in political terms and reification of the economy is not found to be a common feature of the coverage. Explanations for the contours of the agenda (and omissions from it) are sought in terms of newsroom practice and the location of the coverage within a broader discourse of economic ideas.

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