"With news media being so closely associated with the political system, Takahashi brings the relationship between these two into sharper relief […]. [Takahashi] is able to successfully place Luhmann’s work within the broader context of media studies by directly comparing the latter’s criteria for news selection with other authoritative schematisations."—Nico Buitendag, North-West University, In: Soziale Systeme, Volume 29, Issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 312–324.