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TELEVISION NEWS IN INDIA : Mediating Democracy and Difference

The `communicative architecture' routinely organizing and delivering television news in India, as with television news internationally, exhibits far more complexity than conventional discourse and framing approaches to news study have thus far acknowledged or explored. The article argues that t...

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Main Author: Simon Cottle and Mugdha Rai
Format: Printed Book
Published: International Communication Gazette 2008; 70; 76 2008
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Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/003378.pdf
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