Covering the European Union : from an intergovernmental towards a supranational perspective?

Cauwenberge, Anna van (author), Gelders, Dave (author), Joris, Willem (author)

This article investigates the cross-national prevalence of five news frames in quality papers' coverage of the Treaty of Lisbon (EU Constitution). Three frames were identified in earlier studies: economic consequences, conflict, and human interest. Two additional frames were identified and composed: powerand nationalisation. During the seven-month period leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon (December 2007), we analysed 341 articles from four quality papers: Le Monde (France), De Volkskrant (The Netherlands), De Standaard (Dutch speaking community of Belgium), and Le Soir (French speaking community of Belgium). Our results show that although signifi cant differences between newspapers were found in the amount of framing, overall they reflected a similar pattern in the adoption of the news frames. The economic consequences frame, followed by the power frame, appeared most prominently in all of the newspapers' coverage. However, the conflict and nationalisation frames recurred in a significantly lesser degree. These fi ndings indicate that the meaning behind the EU Constitution as a symbol of supranational unity could have led to a shift from a domesticated, conflict oriented coverage as found in previous studies to a more unified portrayal of the EU within and between the quality papers under study.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2009
• Number of pages: Str. 41-54
• Numbering: Vol. 16, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-76578
• UDC: 070EU
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 29082717
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost = The public
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, European Institute for Communication and Culture
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Pokrivanje Evropske Unije: od medvladne k nadnacionalni perspektivi?

Abstract

Članek raziskuje meddržavno razširjenost petih novičarskih okvirov v poročanju o Lizbonski pogodbi (ustavi EU) v kakovostnih dnevnikih. Ob treh okvirih iz prejšnjih raziskav - gospodarske posledice, spori in "human interest" - sta bila ugotovljena še dva dodatna: moč in nacionalizacija. V sedemmesečnem obdobju pred podpisom Lizbonske pogodbe decembra 2007 smo analizirali 341 člankov iz štirih kakovostnih dnevnikov: Le Monde (Francija), De Volkskrant (Nizozemska), De Standaard (nizozemsko govoreča skupnost Belgija), in Le Soir (francosko govoreča skupnost v Belgiji). Naši rezultati kažejo, da čeprav so bile med časopisi pomembne razlike v obsegu okvirjanja, nasploh kažejo podoben vzorec oblikovanja okvirov novic. V vseh časopisih je najpomembnejši okvir gospodarskih posledic, ki mu sledi okvir moči. Okvira konfliktov in nacionalizacije sta se pojavljala v bistveno manjši meri. Te ugotovitve kažejo, da bi lahko pomen ustave EU kot simbola nadnacionalne enotnosti povzročil premik od podomačenega, v konflikt usmerjenega poročanja, kakršno je bilo ugotovljeno v prejšnjih raziskavah, k bolj enotni predstavitvi EU v časopisih, ki so bili vključeni v analizo.