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This 10 page paper looks at how the draft European Constitution was reported in the UK national press. This is undertaken by selecting five articles over a ten day period to code regarding the content and placement of positive, neutral and negative statements. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEeucode.rtf
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discussed has been the subject of much study in recent years, it is only in recent weeks that the draft document has been released for debate. In the European press
this has passed with little attention, most references to the release of the draft European Constitution taking place on the middle pages in side columns only. The UK has traditionally
resisted many of the collective tools of the European Union, not a member of the single currency and a generally negative perception of the way in which power within the
EU is welded there is likely to be a different perspective taken in the UK press. The question that is to be answered by this paper is; is the
UK media coverage of the draft European Constitution favourable or unfavourable to the way in which it will dictate policy and impact on the UK. To assess the coverage
of the perception given to the Draft European Constitution a representative sample of UK Newspapers has been selected. Articles that have the term European Constitution both within the header or
first paragraph as well as included later in the article are defined as acceptable articles. The articles are then examined individually. To assess the coverage and whether or not it
is favourable they will be coded. The coding will have three options, where the constitution and the approach or attitude towards the condition is discussed this will be coded as
wither positive, neutral or negative. Neutral statements are likely to be factual statement where there is not real opinion given, or where it is stated that the impact will not
be negative or positive, such as it having little effect, if any. Negative statements are those that indicate the European Constitution is likely to have a negative impact on the
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