A tale of two weeklies: from reassurance to concern.
This article focuses on the news coverage of the video display terminal (VDT) health and safety controversy by two U.S. weeklies, as of January 1981. Long-term exposure to microwave radiation from video-display terminals has allegedly been suspected as a cause of premature cataracts in writers and e...
| Publicado en: | Columbia Journalism Review Vol. 19; no. 5; p. 34 |
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