Daring to be heard: Advertorials by organized interests on the op-ed page of The New York Times, 1985-1998

Political Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-50

  Brown, Clyde ^a   Waltzer, Herbert ^b   Waltzer, Miriam B ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Advertorials; Image and advocacy advertorials; op ed page; Organized interests; Outside lobby campaigns; The New York Times; Time series data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035582956     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584600150217640     Document Type: Article

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