European Media Output; European Public Sphere; Critically Seeking Stakeholder Exposure

This book is was originally a dissertation submitted to the University of Kent in April 2008. It was awarded a distinction. Its aim is to investigate the (dis-)proportionality of stakeholder representation in the mediated European public sphere, and to uncover how a combination of various implicit hierarchies of news production and particularly the outcome of source selection and use, shapes the media output in favour of influence and authority rather than balance.