Interviews with 150 community residents, 41 community leaders, and the staff of the community newspaper in a small town, as well as an analysis of the content of the newspaper, are used to examine relationships between the agendas of the various groups studied. Results indicated that leaders are significantly more likely than nonleaders are to say they are aware of things going on in the community before word of those things appears in the local newspaper. Newspaper staff members are significantly more likely than leaders are to name the newspaper and its staff as determiners of what local issues are presented on a community-wide basis and what local issues are not presented. Qualitative data from the leaders indicate they have easy access to the community newspaper, though this access is probably for news and events rather than for issues. The results do not indicate that the leaders know in advance what the issues in the community, as reflected in those later covered by the newspaper, will be. Church and liquor-related issues, however, are played down by the newspaper. (Author/AA)