"Bad News" Media?

Mal Fletcher on BBC Breakfast

Tuesday 27 September 2011


 

In challenging economic times, are news media going over the top with constant repetition of words like 'crisis', 'emergency' and 'depression'?

Mal Fletcher, Social Futurist & Commentator and chairman of the London-based Think Tank 2020Plus, discusses the issue on BBC Breakfast.

This interview took place in the lead-up to a five-day public study by 2020Plus into the prevalence of negative words in news media.