'Bullets as bacteria': Television news magazines' use of the public health model for reporting violence

Journalism

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-42

  Coleman, Renita ^a   Perlmutter, David D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Journalism; News; Public health; Television; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849153191     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884905048951     Document Type: Article

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