News Values on Europe

Despite having run the judge's comments that we should be careful to wait for the judgement in the referendum case as a top story in the press -  the actual judgement seemed to go past very quietly last week. Under what news values do you run half a story?

Perhaps those in which Europe stories have to be (to borrow a headline from the Standard) ones about "Chaos".

So it's not big news when the judge said "In the event, the decision of the court is itself clear. We have found nothing in the claimant’s case to cast doubt on the lawfulness of ratifying the Lisbon Treaty without a referendum".

(Full judgement here http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/docs/judgments_guidance/wheeler_pm250608.pdf

Which seems to me to be the judicial equivalent of "Don't be bloody silly". The Telegraph has the biggest coverage - but then a lot of the comments there ARE bloody silly.

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/25/dl2504.xml

Not sure why the anti-europeans can't grasp that our law is what parliament says it is - and that it doesn't matter how many of the words in the two documents are the same. 

 

 



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