Talking about poverty: News framing of who is responsible for causing and fixing the problem

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 563-581

  Kim, Sei Hill ^a   Carvalho, John P ^b   Davis, Andrew G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE; POVERTY; TELEVISION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651438636     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769901008700308     Document Type: Article

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