Evaluating public discourse in newspaper opinion articles: Values-framing and integrative complexity in substance and health policy issues

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-74

  Hoffman, Lindsay H ^a   Slater, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; HEALTH POLICY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MEDIA ROLE; POLITICAL INTEGRATION;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 34447270729     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900708400105     Document Type: Article

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