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Singletary, Michael – 1980
This report provides a review of literature exploring accuracy in newspaper stories. The findings discussed do not reveal definite reasons for inaccuracy, but several possible error sources are delineated: amount of reporter involvement, type of news, psychological factors (stress, news reporters' fantasies, open/closed-mindedness, tendency to…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Evaluation, Journalism, Literature Reviews
Schwartz, Thomas A. – 1983
First Amendment students were unhappy to see Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retire because his voting record demonstrated a favorable attitude toward freedom of speech and press. His replacement, Sandra Day O'Connor, was predicted to be a conservative or moderate who probably would vote consistently with Stewart in other areas, but her…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Content Analysis, Court Judges, Court Litigation
McIntyre, Jerilyn – 1981
A study examined the news coverage given by the "Industrial Worker" to the San Diego free speech fight of 1912, the last of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union's free speech fights on the West Coast. The "Worker," a publication of the IWW, devoted columns of coverage to that conflict in the form of reports, letters,…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Identification (Psychology), Industrial Personnel, Journalism