A watershed in White House journalism: Explaining the post-1968 rise of aggressive presidential news

Political Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 229-247

  Clayman, Steven E ^a   Elliott Sr , Marc N ^b   Heritage, John ^a   Beckett, Megan K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive journalism; Presidential news conferences; Presidential press conferences; Watchdog journalism; White House press corps

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955407528     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2010.496712     Document Type: Article

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