An edition of The watchdog that didn't bark (2013)
Watchdog That Didn't Bark
The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism
By Dean Starkman
Publish Date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
eng
Pages
368
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.