Soft news and political knowledge: Evidence of absence or absence of evidence?

Political Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 173-190

  Baum, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Entertainment media; Hard news; Infotainment; News media; Political knowledge; Soft news; Tabloid news

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038795469     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584600390211181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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