This study compiles and analyzes data on views of politicians and economists reported in news articles published in five Spanish dailies (the three leading national newspapers –El País, El Mundo and ABC-, and the two leading financial newspapers –Expansión and Cinco Días-). Quantitative content analysis will be used as the basic methodology for research. This content analysis will be focused on the coincidences and divergences between the nature, structure and frames of the opinions and comments on the bubble made by these policy makers and experts in two different periods, before and after the bubble burst. The general hypothesis of the research is that before the crisis –especially among politicians- there was not a real discussion on the threat of a housing bubble, its causes and probable consequences, but a quite orchestrated “negationist” consen...

The future of newspapers and journalism is one of the key themes in the current debates around the media. The severe economic and identity crisis being experienced in the sector have raised all the alarms, and every newspaper is rethinking what to do to survive. This article raises the need for journalism to “reconquer” some land lost in these times of transformation. The reconquests that are proposed affect to different aspects of journalism, both from a professional and business point of view.

This study compiles and analyzes data on views of politicians and economists reported in news articles published in five Spanish dailies (the three leading national newspapers –El País, El Mundo and ABC-, and the two leading financial newspapers –Expansión and Cinco Días-). Quantitative content analysis will be used as the basic methodology for research. This content analysis will be focused on the coincidences and divergences between the nature, structure and frames of the opinions and comments on the bubble made by these policy makers and experts in two different periods, before and after the bubble burst. The general hypothesis of the research is that before the crisis –especially among politicians- there was not a real discussion on the threat of a housing bubble, its causes and probable consequences, but a quite orchestrated “negationist” consen...