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This study employs information obtained from media content analyses, as well as economic and political data, to investigate negativity in unemployment news between 2001 and 2010 in Germany. The data indicate a substantial bias in terms of the amounts of negative and positive reports, compared with the actual development of unemployment. Moreover, the media tend to place negative unemployment reports more prominently than positive ones. The estimates suggest that the bias is not the consequence of journalists asymmetrically interpreting the official unemployment numbers. Instead, it is associated with the exploitation of often non-economic information and structural influences in the process of news production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the parallel between ancient Rome and the modern U.S. in the resurgence of American print journalism, political commentary, and current affairs literature in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It explores the distortion of American prejudices on Roman Republics and Empires and the modern American consciousness of Rome caricatured image which originates in Hollywood films. It also discusses the image of Rome in modern American culture.