This just in ... how national TV news handled the breaking "live" coverage of September 11

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 689-703

  Reynolds, Amy ^a   Barnett, Brooke ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIA ROLE; TERRORISM;

EID: 0347135737     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900308000312     Document Type: Article

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