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Sat 03 Mar 2010Did the media fail to sound alarm bells before the financial crisis?
Many people in key positions were aware of problems before our financial tsunami struck, yet these did not make it into the mainstream media in a coherent and authoritative way
COVERING THE Crisis was the topic of a recent two-day seminar organised in Brussels by the European Journalism Centre. Participating journalists concluded that their colleagues had “failed to sound the alarm bells effectively”. The seminar also looked at the Irish situation, probing how journalists might report events if this country were to follow Iceland into the economic abyss.
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