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Publication details [#51900]
Martin, Paul. 2008. The Mass Media as Sentinel: Why Bad News About Issues is Good News for Participation. Political Communication 25 (2) : 180–193. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
Drawing on the 1974 National Election Study and the Center for Political Studies' newspaper content analysis, this paper argues that bad news about politically relevant social issues increases political participation.