The impact of individual and interpersonal factors on perceived news media bias

Political Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-117

  Eveland Jr , William P ^a   Shah, Dhavan V ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased sampling; Hostile media phenomenon; Interpersonal networks; Media bias; Media credibility; Spiral of silence

Indexed keywords

EID: 17044383131     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00318     Document Type: Review

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