Informative or Not? Media Coverage of Child Social Policy Issues

Social Indicators Research Series

Volumn 27, Issue , 2006, Pages 173-191

  Kunkel, Dale ^a   Smith, Stacy ^b   Suding, Peg ^c   Biely, Erica ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child Care; News Coverage; News Medium; Topic Area; Violent Crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872390387     PISSN: 13876570     EISSN: 22150099     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4242-6_13     Document Type: Chapter

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