Recommended Reading List #45

Mike McNamara is frustrated at the news media's inability to provide adequate information of what's going on around Europe. I can sympathise, although my focus is more local.

His attention is drawn by the Belgian beer crisis, and he explains how this reflects the conflict over differing attutudes to the response to the economic crisis.

On the one hand corporate debt has been built up to an unsupportable level, but heavy job losses in an important export-oriented industry could have wider consequences for the speed and sustainability of the recovery.

Mike attacks the mainstream TV media for neglecting its' duty to provide enough scrutiny on matters of widepread interest and importance.

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