This book explains how the media helped to invent the European Union as the supranational polity that we know today. Against normative EU scholarship, it tells the story of the rise of the Euro-journalists – pro-European advocacy journalists – within the post-war Western European media. The Euro-journalists pioneered a journalism which symbolically magnified the technocratic European Community as the embodiment of Europe. Normative research on the media and European integration has focused on how the media might help to construct a democratic and legitimate European Union. In contrast, this book aims to deconstruct how journalists – as part of Western European elites – played a key role in elite European identity building campaigns.
Author(s): Martin Herzer
Series: Palgrave Studies In The History Of The Media
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 365
Tags: History Of Modern Europe
Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Introduction (Martin Herzer)....Pages 1-13
The Media and the Many Europes (Martin Herzer)....Pages 15-63
The Emergence of the Euro-journalists (Martin Herzer)....Pages 65-113
The Rise of the Euro-narrative (Martin Herzer)....Pages 115-174
The Dominance of Euro-journalism (Martin Herzer)....Pages 175-251
Euro-journalism and the Emergence of a European Polity (Martin Herzer)....Pages 253-294
Conclusion: The Media, Politics and European Identity Building (Martin Herzer)....Pages 295-309
Back Matter ....Pages 311-357
