Blinded by 'objectivity': How news conventions caused journalists to miss the real story in the 'Our Lady' controversy in Santa Fe

Journalism

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 379-396

  Dolan, Kevin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Art; Ethnicity; Feminism; Gentrification; Neutrality; News conventions; Objectivity; Representation; Self image

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049125432     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884905054066     Document Type: Article

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