What Went Wrong and Why? Roots, Responsibilities, and Solutions of the Euro Crisis in European Newspapers

Nienstedt, Heinz-Werner; Kepplinger, Hans Mathias; Quiring, Oliver

doi:10.5040/9780755694990.ch-002

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“…This has resulted in the above-mentioned normative deficiencies concerning their information and orientation functions. German news media tended to domesticate the three crises by directing their attention, for instance, to national affectedness and national politicians (Feng ler et al, 2018;Lichtenstein, Ritter, & Fähnrich, 2017;Nienstedt, Kepplinger, & Quiring, 2015). With regard to the information function in the public sphere, and in line with the indexing thesis, studies point to strong parallels between news media coverage and the official position of the German government.…”

Section: Recent International Crisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We coded up to three problem definitions, causal interpretations, attributions of blame, and treatment recommendations per crisis segment. The frame elements were derived from previous studies on news media coverage of the three crises (Lichtenstein et al, 2019;Nienstedt et al, 2015), and validated with a selection of the material.…”

Section: Analysis and Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Satirizing international crises. The depiction of the Ukraine, Greek debt, and migration crises in political satire

Nitsch

Lichtenstein

2019

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In international crises, the media’s information and orientation function is particularly important in the public sphere. While the news media’s crisis coverage has been well researched and often criticized, very little is known about the depiction of crises in political satire. This study examines how German satirical shows (n = 154 episodes, 2014–2016) covered the Ukraine, Greek debt, and migration crises and whether or not these depictions corresponded to news media logic. In its attention to the crises, satire follows news media’s conflict orientation. Parallels with news media logic also relate to the information function because the predominant frame elements in satirical shows mirror governmental positions. This is different regarding the orientation function. In their evaluation of the frame elements, satirical shows’ criticism of governmental positions and their support for minority positions create a counter-narrative for the crises. Thus, satirical shows provide added value for public discourse.

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Section: Recent International Crisesmentioning

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Section: Analysis and Measuresmentioning

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Satirizing international crises. The depiction of the Ukraine, Greek debt, and migration crises in political satire

Nitsch

Lichtenstein

2019

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“…In contrast, in the context of the Eastern enlargements in 2004 and 2007, economic frames on the degree of market freedom or market regulation were highlighted. In times of the Euro crisis, content analyses on media coverage on the crisis (Galpin, 2017; Grande and Kriesi, 2015; Nienstedt et al., 2015) give evidence for the idea that these two conflicts in identity constructions were supplemented by a third conflict concerning finance policy. While Germany, the UK and other less affected countries in the crisis focused heavily on economic stability and therefore supported austerity politics as an identity marker (Galpin, 2017), the crisis countries in Southern Europe, including France, promoted economic growth as a common goal for the Europeans.…”

Section: Constructing European Identity In Media Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to the so-called black sheep effect (Marques et al., 1988), the perception of deviance may serve as legitimation for group discrimination and the withdrawal of solidarity. In the Euro crisis, for instance, Greece was perceived as deviating from the view of the EU as a currency union with mutual benefits for all its member states in a number of EU countries’ media (Galpin, 2017; Nienstedt et al., 2015). The use of stereotypes of lazy Greeks and demands to limit solidarity indicated the rejection of togetherness with Greece.…”

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Lost in uncertainty: How the Euro crisis affected European identity constructions in national media discourses

Lichtenstein

Eilders

2018

International Communication Gazette

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The Euro crisis has revealed severe conflicts between EU member states and challenged a shared European identity. This article investigates how the crisis was reflected in identity constructions in media discourses in EU key countries. European identity construction is conceptualized as framing of the EU in favour or against belonging to the EU and togetherness with other members. Conducting a systematic content analysis of two weekly newspapers and magazines in Germany, France and the UK, we compare identity constructions between 2011 and 2014. Findings show that while support of belonging to the EU is low in general, the countries differ remarkably in terms of their sense of togetherness. This particularly applies to strong or weak political integration, market regulation or market freedom and financial stability or impulses for economic growth. The positions reflect long-term political conflicts between the countries but are also flexible enough to adapt to the particular event context.

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“…Picard ; Nienstedt et al. ), while others have suggested the existence of a more Europeanised narrative with common frames (not least between Spain and Germany) on ‘conditionality’ and ‘competitiveness’, among others (Kaiser & Kleinen‐von Königslöw , ).…”

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European elites and the narrative of the Greek crisis: A discursive institutionalist analysis

Papadimitriou

Pegasiou

Zartaloudis

2018

European J Political Res

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This article examines elite European discourses during the Greek financial crisis from its pre‐history in September 2008 up to the arrival of the SYRIZA government in January 2015. The article employs the conceptual literature on Discursive Institutionalism (DI) and Historical Institutionalism (HI). Having coded 1,153 unique quotes drawn from a dataset of 15,354 news wires from Reuters, the authors argue that the communicative discourse of 63 senior European (and IMF) officials on the Greek crisis during that period demonstrates significant volatility. Four distinct narrative frames are identified: ‘neglect’, ‘suspicious cooperation’, ‘blame’ and ‘reluctant redemption’, punctuated by three discursive junctures in 2010, 2011 and 2012, which reflect the content of the changing communicative discourse of the Greek crisis. The article's contribution is twofold: empirically, it is the first to provide a systematic analysis of the protagonists’ communication of the Greek crisis; and theoretically, it combines DI and HI in an effort to conceptualise an important part of our understanding of ‘bail‐out politics’ throughout the Eurozone crisis.

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What Went Wrong and Why? Roots, Responsibilities, and Solutions of the Euro Crisis in European Newspapers

Cited by 8 publications

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Satirizing international crises. The depiction of the Ukraine, Greek debt, and migration crises in political satire

Satirizing international crises. The depiction of the Ukraine, Greek debt, and migration crises in political satire

Lost in uncertainty: How the Euro crisis affected European identity constructions in national media discourses

European elites and the narrative of the Greek crisis: A discursive institutionalist analysis

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