POLS 3435 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Existential Crisis, Media Matters For America, Media Play
27 Oct 2016
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The eu is frequently depicted as in severe crisis, on the verge of dissolution. The imperfections were in the structure of the eu and the original euro. The way it"s set up is fundamentally flawed. Does(cid:374)"t (cid:271)ri(cid:374)g eve(cid:374)ts or hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s i(cid:374)to the pi(cid:272)ture. Humans are not simply rationally calculating people. If you want to understand why the crisis becomes a crisis. It is becomes people become aware that they are losing out. A crisis that challenges the existence of the eu. How can the media play a role play into the crisis pattern. Media tends to blow things out of proportion. This news in put into terms of a certain bias. Framing of their argument and the situation. Can form a national opinion of the eu. Ex: british media and the negative view of the eu. Often interpreting things as a problem before it"s actually a problem.
