Testing models of media performance in Wartime: U.K. tv news and the 2003 invasion of Iraq

Journal of Communication

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 534-563

  Robinson, Piers ^a   Goddard, Peter ^b   Parry, Katy ^b   Murray, Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; MEDIA ROLE; MODEL TEST; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POWER RELATIONS; STATE ROLE; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAR;

EID: 70350405102     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01435.x     Document Type: Article

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