“America Under Attack”: CNN’s Verbal and Visual Framing of September 11

Media Representations of September 11

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 85-101

  Reynolds, Amy ^a   Barnett, Brooke ^b  

^a Indiana State University   (United States)

^b ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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