Accidents, icons, and indexing: The dynamics of news coverage of police use of force

Political Communication

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 437-454

  Lawrenc, Regina G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidental events; Indexing; Journalistic norms; News icons; Police brutality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030251009     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.1996.9963130     Document Type: Article

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