Reporting Greece (and the UK), the Language of Panic and Doom

First it was "kindinologies", then "kakophonia": now George Papandreou uses the term "katastrofologies", to describe those journalists and articles predicting economic disaster.

Panic-mongers? Prophets of doom, with potentially self-fulfilling prophecies of impending catastrophe?


The End Game, by Gavin Hewitt

Mark Mazower in the NYT

Thomas Friedman in the NYT


A comparison of media coverage of the Greek economic crisis and the UK phone-hacking affair


New York Times article from 2010 (on phone-hacking)


Bagehot on the British mood

and on resignations


BBC on the knife-edge scenario (Greece)

Until recently, Greece would have scored high economic ratings for the factors of happiness and well-being.
People still look very happy on the beaches and in the coffee-shops.