The watchdog that didn't bark
Subtitle: the financial crisis and the disappearance of investigative reporting
By: Dean Starkman
Series: Columbia Journalism Review Books; Columbia journalism review books
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780231536288; 9780231158183
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Investigative reporting; Financial crises; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Press coverage; Media Studies; Journalism
Description: In this sweeping, incisive study, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. Dividing journalism into two competing approaches?access reporting and accountability reporting?he connects the financial collapse to what happens when the former overwhelms the latter and reporters lose sight of their public role. Starkman travels back to the early twentieth century and juxtaposes the work of reporters against other forms of journalism, particularly muckraking. These two genres merged when m.
Notes: Electronic book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ida Tarbell, muckraking, and the rise of accountability reporting; title: Access and messenger boys : the roots of business news and the birth of the Wall Street journal; title: Kilgore's revolution at the Wall Street journal : rise of the great story; title: Muckraking goes mainstream : democratizing financial and technical knowledge; title: CNBCization : insiders, access, and the return of the messenger boy; title: Subprime rises in the 1990s : journalism and regulation fight back; title: Muckraking the banks, 2000-2003 : a last gasp for journalism and regulation; title: Three journalism outsiders unearth the looming mortgage crisis; title: The watchdog that didn't bark : the disappearance of accountability reporting and; title: The financial collapse, 2004-2006; title: Digitism, corporatism, and the future of journalism : as the hamster wheel turns.