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Fico, Frederick – 1984
Data gathered in a study of news coverage of the parttime Indiana and fulltime Michigan state legislatures were used to determine if source use in stories, portrayals of lawmakers and of the legislature as a whole, and topic coverage varied with the length of the legislative session. A content analysis was conducted of the 111 stories written by…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Sources, Legislators, Media Research