Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism

http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2010/11-brothers-in-arms-capitalism-and-corporate-journalism.html
Date Written:  2010-06-16
Publisher:  Medialens
Year Published:  2010
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12047

An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned.

Subject Headings

• Corporate Media
• Journalism
• Media Analysis & Criticism
• Media Bias