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- Title
Portraits of a Public Suicide: Photo Treatment by Selected Pennsylvania Dailies.
- Authors
Baker, Robert L.
- Abstract
The use of photographs is examined in 91 Pennsylvania dailies' news coverage of the Jan. 22, 1987, suicide of Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer. Difference in photo are is compared for large vs. small papers, those in competitive markets, those in markets where television covered the event graphically and those at distances from the victim's hometown.
- Subjects
PENNSYLVANIA; MARKETS; SUICIDE; TELEVISION broadcasting of news; CRIMINAL law; VICTIMS; NEWSPAPERS
- Publication
Newspaper Research Journal, 1988, Vol 9, Issue 4, p11
- ISSN
0739-5329
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/073953298800900402