Testing the Saturday Night Live Hypothesis: Fairness and Bias in Newspaper Coverage of Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign

Politics and Gender

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-198

  Miller, Melissa K ^a   Peake, Jeffrey S ^a   Boulton, Brittany Anne ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79956250843     PISSN: 1743923X     EISSN: 17439248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X10000036     Document Type: Article

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