“…The crisis caused unprecedented civil and political unrest, and Iceland is still dealing with the aftermath (see, for example, Bernburg, 2016; Johnsen, 2014; Jónsson, 2009; Jónsson and Sigurgeirsson, 2017). The Parliament set up a Special Investigation Commission (SIC) to investigate the causes of the collapse and, in a report, criticized the Icelandic media for its performance in the years leading up to the financial crisis (Hreinsson et al, 2010). The Journalist Union established its own committee to review the SIC report and concluded that the critique was, in many ways, well deserved.…”