News media’s position-taking regarding the European Union: the synchronization of mass media’s reporting and commentating in the 2014 European Parliament elections

Adam, Silke; Eugster, Beatrice; Antl-Wittenberg, Eva-Maria; Azrout, Rachid; Moeller, Judith; Vreese, Claes de; Maier, Michaela; Kritzinger, Sylvia

doi:10.1080/13501763.2017.1375546

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“…Thus, although the editorial is an institutional opinion space, FSP seeks to behave in a way that is perceived as balanced even in the opinion spaces. Thus, in relation to the difficulty of expressing opinion in a space of tensions, professionals comment on how rigorous the company seeks to be in an attempt to avoid the permeability in the wall that divides facts and opinions, something that the international literature has already worked to measure (Adam et al, 2017;Berkel, 2006;Druckman & Parkin, 2005;Eilders, 1999;Gronemeyer & Porath, 2015;Ho & Quinn, 2008). Machado (interview, June 4, 2017) treats the separation between opinion and information as a consensus, assigning its resolution to the rules established in the Manual of Style and Usage.…”

Section: Editorial Values Of the Journalistic Companymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the face of the impressions reported by professionals, it is worth considering that, although the interviewees statements ensure the untying between fact and opinion, international studies dedicated to investigating such interference have found some porosity between opinion and news sections, both in terms of issues agenda (Druckman & Parkin, 2005), concerning the direction adopted by opinions (Eilders, 1999) or the sources heard (Adam et al, 2017). Thus, the perception of the interviewees about the independence of news reporters in relation to institutional opinion (characterized in the opinion section) is not enough to ensure that the positions presented in the editorials do not spill over the direction of the news reports.…”

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The Journalist between the Profession and the Newspaper's Interests: Values and Routines in the Production of Folha De S. Paulo’s Editorials

Mont'Alverne

Athanásio²,

Marques³

2018

BJR

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Notwithstanding journalistic editorials may evidence conflicts and negotiations involving public and private interests, their production process is little investigated in Brazil. The article examines the values and routines typical to the work of Folha de S. Paulo’s editorialists to find out how they construct newspaper’s positions. By applying Content Analysis to three in-depth interviews, we propose four thematic axes regarding the features of journalistic editorials: Political and marketing roles; their target audience; production routines; and editorial values of the newspaper. The results indicate that editorialists exercise limited autonomy, striving to fit the positions historically defended by the publication. Such a condition is seen as natural by the interviewees, with no record of tensions between their individual opinions and newspaper’s positions. Embora o editorial possa tornar evidentes conflitos e negociações envolvendo interesses públicos e privados na atividade jornalística, seu processo de produção é pouco investigado no Brasil. O objetivo do artigo é examinar, a partir do estudo de valores e rotinas inerentes à atuação dos editorialistas, os modos pelos quais os posicionamentos da Folha de S. Paulo (FSP) são construídos. A Análise de Conteúdo de três entrevistas em profundidade realizadas com profissionais da FSP permitiu sistematizar quatro eixos temáticos acerca dos editoriais: função política; público-alvo; rotinas produtivas; e valores da empresa. Os resultados indicam que os editorialistas exercem autonomia limitada, esforçando-se para se enquadrar no histórico de posições da empresa. Tal condição é vista com naturalidade pelos entrevistados, sem registro de tensões entre opiniões individuais e posicionamentos institucionais. Aunque el editorial sea capaz de evidenciar conflictos y negociaciones entre el interés público y privado en la práctica periodística, su proceso productivo es poco examinado en Brasil. El objetivo del artículo es analizar, a través del estudio de valores y rutinas inherentes a la actuación de los editorialistas, como los posicionamientos de Folha de S. Paulo son diseñados. El Análisis de Contenido de tres entrevistas en profundidad realizadas con profesionales de FSP ha sido organizada en cuatro ejes temáticos acerca de los editoriales: función política; público objetivo; rutinas de producción; y valores de la empresa. Los resultados indican que los editorialistas tienen una autonomía limitada y que se adaptan al historial de posicionamientos de la compañía. Esta adecuación es percibida con naturalidad, sin registro de tensiones entre opiniones individuales y posicionamientos institucionales.

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Section: Editorial Values Of the Journalistic Companymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Patumentioning

confidence: 99%

The Journalist between the Profession and the Newspaper's Interests: Values and Routines in the Production of Folha De S. Paulo’s Editorials

Mont'Alverne

Athanásio²,

Marques³

2018

BJR

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“…It can be assumed that such a national "filter" exists for the selection and presentation of public statements on the economic and financial crisis (Zamponi and Bosi 2016;Sommer et al 2016) and that such a national filter is linked to the functioning and orientation patterns of mass media (Bijsmans and Altides 2007;Boomgaarden et al 2013;Adam et al 2019). However, this is not the only reason, because if the media were the central driving force behind this national bias, this would be reflected in our data set.…”

Section: Public Debates On the Crisis: Interlocked Segmentationmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Collective identities play a role, as well, given that EU-related attitudes largely depend on the extent to which citizens have developed a feeling of belonging to Europe, while the attachment to the nation state might be conducive to opposition to the EU (de Vries and van Kersbergen 2007;Hooghe and Marks 2005;. Finally, media consumption has a significant impact on critical attitudes because the mass media are actively engaged in shaping public opinions and tend to lean towards critical news coverage that nurtures Eurosceptic attitudes among their users (de Vreese and Boomgaarden 2006;Maier and Rittberger 2008;Conti and Memoli 2017;Galpin and Trenz 2019;Adam et al 2019). These standard predictors have thus been proven to convincingly explain the likelihood of Eurosceptic attitudes among respondents.…”

Section: Determining Levels and Correlates Of Euroscepticismmentioning

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The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens

Lahusen¹

2020

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This book unveils the significant impact of the European integration process on the political thinking of European citizens. With close attention to the interrelation between social and political divisions, it shows that an integrated Europe promotes consensus but also propagates growing dissent among its citizens, with both objective inequalities and the subjective perception of these inequalities fuelling political dissent. Based on original data sets developed from two EU-funded projects across eight and nine European countries, the volume demonstrates the important role played by the social structure of European social space in conditioning political attitudes and preferences. It shows, in particular, that Europeans are highly sensitive to unequal living conditions between European countries, thus affecting their political support of national politics and the European Union. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in Europe and the European Union, European integration and political sociology.

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“…While all vertical and horizontal linkages, even banal ones, can help integrating a transnational arena, it is still an intriguing question how substantively meaningful for European politics vertical and horizontal linkages are. Based on previous research on EU coverage in newspapers (Adam et al 2019), lists of EU-related keywords were compiled for all languages. We performed a dictionary analysis to investigate their occurrence in all tweets that include at least one linkage, i.e.…”

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confidence: 99%

Going transnational? Candidates’ transnational linkages on Twitter during the 2019 European Parliament elections

Froio

Stier

Schünemann

2020

West European Politics

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How transnational are European Parliament (EP) campaigns? Building on research on the European public sphere and the politicisation of the EU, this study investigates to what extent the 2019 EP campaign was transnational and which factors were associated with 'going transnational'. It conceptualises Twitter linkages of EP candidates as constitutive elements of a transnational campaign arena distinguishing interactions with EP candidates from other countries (horizontal transnationalisation) and interactions with the supranational European party families and lead candidates (vertical transnationalisation). The analysis of tweets sent by EP candidates from all 28 member states reveals that most linkages remain national. Despite this evidence for the second-order logic, there are still relevant variations contingent on EU positions of parties, the adoption of the Spitzenkandidaten system and socialisation in the EP. The findings have implications for debates on the European public sphere and institutional reform proposals such as transnational party lists that might mitigate the EU's democratic deficit.

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News media’s position-taking regarding the European Union: the synchronization of mass media’s reporting and commentating in the 2014 European Parliament elections

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

The Journalist between the Profession and the Newspaper's Interests: Values and Routines in the Production of Folha De S. Paulo’s Editorials

The Journalist between the Profession and the Newspaper's Interests: Values and Routines in the Production of Folha De S. Paulo’s Editorials

The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens

Going transnational? Candidates’ transnational linkages on Twitter during the 2019 European Parliament elections

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