Knowing this would be a big day, $$$$$-wise, I've watched how the media is covering this huge story. With a passion for media studies, I had to bite this subject for a study. I've put up a comparison of screen shots of the 5:00 p.m. news cycle for online major news sites on my Flickr site.
What made me want to pay attention to this was that while I was tuning into C-Span to see how the House brought this to debate and a vote this morning, I checked the headlines on Digg and was astonished that heavy online users were not paying attention to this story. Two stories, "Chef dies after making ultra-hot sauce for chili-eating" and "Collection of Unusual Clock Designs" made me wonder how our population was paying attention. Sure enough, Digg had the first story on the chef still leading the page on the top stories. Hello???? Anyway, that sparked my study.
I'd started noting that this was historic in the No Good, Terrible Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week and I started studying the graphics of this story then, posting the cover art in my ramble, How Now (Brown) Economy.
How is the media playing this? Neil Cavuto, who my husband says "the things he brings up ahead of time are important things to look at, he's made good calls, he doesn't scream and get crazy, he looks at all sides and he's a very smart man," said this today on Fox cable: I don't know what people will do. My mother ate onion sandwiches for lunch during the depression.
Well, let's eat onion sandwiches and look at this as it unfolds, media-wise and graphic-wise. Here's my artistic take with captured media presentations of the issue: US Economic Crisis Media Study.
Related stories:
Flickr:Part I: Sept. U.S. Economic Crisis Media Study ---Flickr:Part II: Oct. US Economic Crisis
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The Art and Names of the Global Financial Crisis
How Now Brown (Economy)
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Contemporary & Old Media: A Perfect Storm Part I
Contemporary & Old Media: A Perfect Storm Part II
That is pretty darn creative what you've done with those headlines. Good thing I like onions!
Posted by: janeywan | September 29, 2008 at 09:35 PM
Yep, Janeywan.. think we'll all have to get to enjoy them???
Posted by: MotherPie | September 29, 2008 at 10:02 PM
It's all bad; publishing is going down, which is my industry. Cengage recently bought up several houses, including Houghton Mifflin. One of the people I work for lost HM as a client, so I've lost a considerable amount of work . . . And now this bailout, or lack thereof.
Posted by: tut-tut | September 30, 2008 at 06:51 AM
It was news, but not surprising that the vote, as taken on c-span, was not covered. There wasn't anything they could do to change the story from yes or no. Journalists love taking one little spec of a story and making it an editorial piece, telling us why we should feel a certain way, even if it means forgetting a few things, (like the facts). They couldn't sound bite "yes" or "no". Hard to make it "Pro Obama" or "Anti-McCain", although some tried. The President screwed up, The Secretary of the Treasury sold this as a bailout, and it is an "economic stimulus package", Obama and McCain are neither one in the House, that's the House leadership's fault. We should all throw every one out of office!
Posted by: anthony | September 30, 2008 at 09:29 AM
How prophetic was the nuclear blast sunset picture you posted yesterday? Ouch.
Posted by: allison | September 30, 2008 at 01:02 PM