News media's relationship with stereotyping: The linguistic intergroup bias in response to crime news

Journal of Communication

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 289-308

  Gorham, Bradley W ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE; RACE; TELEVISION;

EID: 33646037639     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00020.x     Document Type: Article

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