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This paper contributes to the growing literature on how “new media” is influencing “old media” by tracking references to an extensive list of political blogs in stories run by seventeen prominent print media outlets during the last ten years. The findings presented here show that although journalists frequently use political bloggers as sources in their news coverage, they only reference certai...

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Abstract Japan has experienced many of the factors associated with populism, but not an upsurge populism in national-level politics. We posit that dominant frames Japanese print media coverage form a crucial and overlooked part explanation for absence populism. Our qualitative human-coded analysis quality tabloid demonstrates overall, newspapers act as gatekeepers set agenda is unfavorable righ...