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“The relative intensity or idleness of policing-related news coverage correlates with the ebbs and flows of attentiveness state lawmakers devote to the issue."

Framing police and protesters: assessing volume and framing of news coverage post-Ferguson, and corresponding impacts on legislative activity
Politics, Groups and Identities
Vol. 7 Issue 1, pp. 151–164,
2019
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