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6 - The Media's Voice over Europe

Issue Salience, Openness, and Conflict Lines in Editorials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Barbara Pfetsch
Affiliation:
Free University Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies (Germany)
Silke Adam
Affiliation:
University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences (Switzerland)
Barbara Eschner
Affiliation:
TNS Infratest GmbH, Munich (Germany)
Ruud Koopmans
Affiliation:
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Paul Statham
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
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Summary

The previous chapter has highlighted the role of the media as conveyors of news about Europe. We have seen that journalists understand their advocacy over Europe to be more information driven and educational than ideological. In this chapter we seek to understand how the press contributes as political actor to the Europeanization of national public spheres. Therefore, in this part of the overall study we treat the media as distinctive claimants (Page 1996; Pfetsch and Adam 2008), who, like other collective actors – such as governments, parties, or civil society – make their own contribution to public debate. According to professional standards, the format in which the media legitimately raise their own voice is the editorial.

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The Making of a European Public Sphere
Media Discourse and Political Contention
, pp. 151 - 170
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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