The effects of media interpretation for citizen evaluations of politicians' messages

American Politics Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 129-154

  Fogarty, Brian J ^a   Wolak, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass media; Message reception; News coverage; Persuasion; Political communication; Source cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649235899     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X08319953     Document Type: Article

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