Education As Portrayed in Television Newscasts.
This article presents information on a study related to the portrait of education in public through mass media. The study described here examined the coverage given to education and related topics on the nightly newscasts of the American Broadcasting Co., CBS Broadcasting Inc. and National Broadcast...
| Publicado en: | Education Digest Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 17 - 20 |
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Prakken Publications
Dec1984
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