Between partisanship and cynicism: Italian journalism in a state of flux

Journalism

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 329-346

  Poletti, Monica ^a   Brants, Kees ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Media cynicism; Mistrust; Partisanship; Political journalism; Political parallelism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953084083     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884909360923     Document Type: Review

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