Packaging reality: Structures of form in US network news coverage of watergate and the Clinton impeachment

Journalism

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 279-299

  Baym, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinton impeachment; Journalistic authority; Narrative; News form; Representation; Televisuality; US network news; Watergate

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944460663     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884904044937     Document Type: Article

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