Revisiting the Protest Paradigm: The Tea Party as Filtered through Prime-Time Cable News

International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-84

  Weaver, David A ^a   Scacco, Joshua M ^b  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

cable television; media framing; partisan journalism; social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870232973     PISSN: 19401612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1940161212462872     Document Type: Article

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