Nontraditional news negativity: The relationship of entertaining political news use to political cynicism and mistrust

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 287-314

  Guggenheim, Lauren ^a   Kwak, Nojin ^a   Campbell, Scott W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 80052247279     PISSN: 09542892     EISSN: 14716909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edr015     Document Type: Article

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