1. Greek Economic Crisis
Lingyi Jiang
ENG403 SEC02
Spring 2013

2. Background

3. Debts

4. Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein

5. Member of the European
Union

6. Impacts on the Greek
Economy
Greek protestor rallying against the
Greek government's debt proposals.

7. Impacts on the Greek
Economy

8. Impacts on the Greek
Economy

9. Impacts on the Public Opinion
Greek immigrant Maria Zatse reads her
Greek-German dictionary in her flat in
Munich, Germany

10. Impacts on the Public Opinion

11. Impacts on the Public Opinion

12. Research
• March 2010 – August 2012
• ProQuest and Lexis Nexis Academic
• Greek Economic Crisis
• Ten news articles
• Times of London & Wall Street Journal

13. Comparison
• Similarity: Pay Delays.
• Difference
Times of London: Public reaction.
Wall Street Journal: Economic effects.

14. Reasons for Different
Perspectives
• 1. Two different types of news paper.

15. • 2. They have different readers.
Times of London: Europeans.
Wall Street Journal: Americans.

16. • 3. Readers have different interests.
Times of London: Greek’s opinion about the crisis
and their future plans.
Wall Street Journal: How the crisis that happened in
Europe would impact the U.S. economy.

17. Conclusion
• Both described and covered the topic very well.
• Times of London : Public reaction.
• Wall Street Journal : Economic perspective.
• Reader’s satisfaction.