Public Diplomacy, Television News, and Muslim Opinion

Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 11-37

  Nisbet, Erik C ^a   Nisbet, Matthew C ^b   Scheufele, Dietram A ^a   Shanahan, James E ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Al Jazeera; Anti Americanism; Arab media; Middle East; Muslim opinion; Public diplomacy; Television news; Transnational media

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842430474     PISSN: 1081180X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1081180X04263459     Document Type: Article

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