A systematic procedure for detecting news biases: The case of Israel in European news sites

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1947-1966

  Segev, Elad ^a   Miesch, Regula ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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