Entertainment or education: How do media cover the courts?

Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 80-97

  Danielle Vinson, C ^a   Ertter, John S ^b  

^a FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0038511092     PISSN: 1081180X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/108118002129172737     Document Type: Review

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