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Laura Basu

Laura Basu

Laura Basu is a fellow in the Media and Communications Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, and at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University. She is the author of Media Amnesia (Pluto, 2018), and editor of The Media and Austerity (Routledge, 2018).

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Media Amnesia

Media Amnesia

Rewriting the Economic Crisis

Laura Basu

How the media has been complicit in sustaining free market capitalism.
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