Objective evidence on media bias: Newspaper coverage of congressional party switchers

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 311-326

  Niven, David ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIA INDUSTRY; PARTY POLITICS;

EID: 0242416153     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900308000206     Document Type: Article

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