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Press Bias and Politics: How the Media Frame Controversial Issues

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Kuypers charts the potential effects the printed presses and broadcast media have upon the messages of political and social leaders when they discuss controversial issues. Examining over 800 press reports on race and homosexuality from 116 different newspapers, Kuypers meticulously documents a liberal political bias in mainstream news. This book asserts that such a bias hurts the democratic process by ignoring non-mainstream left positions and vilifying many moderate and most right-leaning positions, leaving only a narrow ...

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Press Bias and Politics: How the Media Frame Controversial Issues 2002, Praeger, New York

ISBN-13: 9780275977597

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Press Bias and Politics: How the Media Frame Controversial Issues 2002, Praeger, New York

ISBN-13: 9780275977580

Hardcover