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Societies Book Review: Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic

conducted. There is only so much landscape that can be covered in nine essays, and the authors cover much in a highly readable fashion. In fact, my only serious complaint about the book is its title. First, it indicts the financial press’s perfor-mance as ‘Bad News’ when the book actually offers a far more nuanced picture of the press’s shortcomings. Second, the title declares that the press ‘missed’ the story when nearly all of the contributors acknowledge much fine work was done. Finally, it brands a crisis that happened in the first decade of the 21st century the ‘story of the century’. Let’s hope no other crisis tops this one in the next 90 years – but that may be wishful thinking.Nonetheless, if you hope to fully understand the Great Recession, I recommend overlooking the title and adding this book to your reading list and journalism library. Editor Schiffrin says she set out to ‘add to the discussion’ (p. x) and she has ably done so.