Measuring media bias: A content analysis of time and newsweek coverage of domestic social issues, 1975-2000

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 690-706

  Covert, Tawnya J Adkins ^a   Wasburn, Philo C ^b  

^a WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547481961     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: 15406237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2007.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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