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The Media, European Integration and the Rise of Euro-journalism, 1950s–1970sEuro-journalism and the Emergence of a European Polity

The Media, European Integration and the Rise of Euro-journalism, 1950s–1970s: Euro-journalism and... [By the mid-1970s, Euro-journalism had consolidated into the standard way of covering European integration within the Western European media. During the second half of the 1970s, the EC emerged within the Western European media as the democratic European polity which journalists today cover as the EU. Committed to Euro-journalism and European identity building, journalists mounted media campaigns in support of European unity. In doing so, they framed the EC as an increasingly fully fledged European political system, boasting the same democratic qualities as national political systems. Reflecting on the ZDF Brussels studio in 1977, ZDF Head of Foreign Affairs Rudolf Radke expressed this mindset as follows: “I would like to emphasise that our presence in Brussels is a studio sui generis. The studio’s strong focus on the community function of the EC justifies ranking it on the same level as the Bonn studio, as if it were standing at the centre of European domestic politics”. This chapter will analyse the process by which the EC went public within the Western European media during the second half of the 1970s, thus becoming the democratic supranational polity that we know today. This process marked the final transformation of the EC from a technocratic international organisation into a democratic European polity—and thus the definitive victory of the Euro-narrative within Western European journalism.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Media, European Integration and the Rise of Euro-journalism, 1950s–1970sEuro-journalism and the Emergence of a European Polity

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
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978-3-030-28777-1
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253 –294
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10.1007/978-3-030-28778-8_6
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[By the mid-1970s, Euro-journalism had consolidated into the standard way of covering European integration within the Western European media. During the second half of the 1970s, the EC emerged within the Western European media as the democratic European polity which journalists today cover as the EU. Committed to Euro-journalism and European identity building, journalists mounted media campaigns in support of European unity. In doing so, they framed the EC as an increasingly fully fledged European political system, boasting the same democratic qualities as national political systems. Reflecting on the ZDF Brussels studio in 1977, ZDF Head of Foreign Affairs Rudolf Radke expressed this mindset as follows: “I would like to emphasise that our presence in Brussels is a studio sui generis. The studio’s strong focus on the community function of the EC justifies ranking it on the same level as the Bonn studio, as if it were standing at the centre of European domestic politics”. This chapter will analyse the process by which the EC went public within the Western European media during the second half of the 1970s, thus becoming the democratic supranational polity that we know today. This process marked the final transformation of the EC from a technocratic international organisation into a democratic European polity—and thus the definitive victory of the Euro-narrative within Western European journalism.]

Published: Dec 12, 2019

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