All the rioting that's fit to print: Selection effects in national newspaper coverage of civil disorders, 1968-1969

American Sociological Review

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 519-543

  Myers, Daniel J ^a   Caniglia, Beth Schaefer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIA INDUSTRY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 7744230826     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000312240406900403     Document Type: Article

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