Insulting the Public? by Peter J. Anderson Tony Weymouth

Author:Peter J. Anderson, Tony Weymouth [Peter J. Anderson, Tony Weymouth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Social History, Social Science, Media Studies
ISBN: 9781317882831
Google: Ck2gBAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-25T16:07:36+00:00

The fulfilment of the budget deficit criterion by 11 member states, February 1998

We begin our commentary with an examination of the way in which the press covered the announcement that 11 member states had met the budget deficit criteria for EMU entry. In some ways this coverage is the most significant of all. On 27 February, the member governments published figures showing in the words of the Financial Times, ‘unexpected strong economic convergence’. The importance of this event is considerable because it appears to have been accepted by much of the press as evidence, whether they liked it or not, that EMU would go ahead in 1999 with the large majority of the member states on board. Given the charged significance of this announcement for the most ideologically committed papers in both camps, it seems reasonable to assume that their coverage will reflect their core attitudes on the desirability or otherwise of EMU, and of the further integration that will accompany it. This assumption, if correct, gives the evaluation of this particular day’s events a higher level of significance than it might otherwise possess. In short, this commentary has a particularly useful ‘benchmark’ significance. We begin with the broadsheets and go on to the tabloids, placing the papers within each category in an order which roughly reflects their place on the Eurosceptic-Europhile continuum as broadsheets and tabloids.

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