ABSTRACT

Taking the case of Spain as example, this article aims to answer the question about the degree to which the problems and concerns of ordinary citizens were included in the press coverage on the boom and the crash of the real estate bubble, and around the economic problems related to the euro crisis. The objective is to determine whether people were a main actor -as agent and/or victim- in the coverage of the crisis, and the degree to which the different nature of the crises and the diverse orientations of the newspapers affected this coverage. In contrast with the idea of a rise of ordinary people as actors in everyday news coverage, the content analysis confirms the hypothesis that people played a very marginal role in the journalistic coverage of both crises. It also confirms that the “silence” of people in the economic coverage did not depend on the ideological or thematic focus of the newspapers under research. The findings also contextualize the ignoring of “people” in the journalistic coverage of economic crises within the silence of traditional media on the connection between the economic crisis and the intense social indignation, which was the breeding ground for political populisms.

摘要

本文以西班牙为例，旨在回答媒体对房地产泡沫的繁荣和破灭以及围绕经济问题的报道中普通公民的问题和担忧的程度。与欧元危机有关。目的是确定人们是否是危机报道的主要参与者——作为代理人和/或受害者——以及危机的不同性质和报纸的不同方向对这种报道的影响程度。与普通人作为日常新闻报道中的演员崛起的想法相反，内容分析证实了人们在两次危机的新闻报道中扮演非常边缘角色的假设。它还证实，经济报道中人们的“沉默”并不取决于所研究报纸的意识形态或主题重点。调查结果还说明了在传统媒体对经济危机与强烈的社会愤慨之间的联系保持沉默的情况下，在经济危机的新闻报道中忽视“人”，这是政治民粹主义的温床。