Partisan Differences in Opinionated News Perceptions: A Test of the Hostile Media Effect

Political Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 407-432

  Feldman, Lauren ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cable news; Hostile media effect; Media bias; Opinionated news; Selective perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051809656     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-010-9139-4     Document Type: Article

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