The Things They Cared about: Change and Continuity in Americans' Attention to Different News Stories, 1989-2002

Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-99

  Bennett, Stephen Earl ^a   Rhine, Staci L ^b   Flickinger, Richard S ^b  

^a Wittenberg University ^*  (United States)

^b WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Democratic theory; Exposure to mass media; Impact of 9 11; Interest in the news

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346973000     PISSN: 1081180X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1081180X03259240     Document Type: Review

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