Balance as bias: Global warming and the US prestige press

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-136

  Boykoff, Maxwell T ^a   Boykoff, Jules M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; GLOBAL WARMING; MEDIA ROLE; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3242798368     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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