List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Remembering John Hills by Howard Glennerster; Introduction: The Media and Inequality; Part I: Understanding Inequality;
1. Flat-lining or Seething Beneath the Surface? Two Decades of Changing Economic Inequality in the UK;
2. Wealth Inequality in the UK;
3. The Decline of Social Mobility;
4. Racial Economic Inequality: The Visible Tip of an Inequality Iceberg?;
5. Home Ownership: The Key to Inequality?; Part II: Framing Poverty and Inequality;
6. Poverty and the Media: Poverty Myths and Exclusion in the Information Society;
7. The Rhetoric of Recession: How British Newspapers Talk About the Poor When Unemployment Rises;
8. Factual Television in the UK: The Rich, the Poor and Inequality;
9. Issue Attention to Income Inequality in the UK and US Print Media;
10. Comparative Trends in the Portrayal of Poverty and Inequality; Part III: Public Opinion, Inequality, and the Media;
11. Public Attitudes to Poverty and Inequality;
12. Debating Inequality: The Case of Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century;
13. The Media and Austerity;
14. Covid, Inequality and the Media;
15. Stuck in a Feedback Loop: Why More Inequality Leads to Lower Levels of Concern