“What's Good for UPS is Good for America”: Nation and Class in Network Television News Coverage of the UPS Strike

Television & New Media

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-152

  Kumar, Deepa ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

class; media; nation; nationalism; news; strike; television

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997884177     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527476403255831     Document Type: Article

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