Details a study showing that government sources in the United States are less credible than they were shown to be in a study conducted 19 years ago. (Author/FL)

A study of daily newspapers in 19 major cities indicates that Black government officials get slightly more news coverage but that that coverage is slightly less favorable than coverage of White officials. (Author/FL)

Found a clear and significant preference for photographs of men in waist, close-up, and full-length shots and of women in bust, waist, and three-quarter shots. (FL)

Concludes that there are two subgroups in the newspaper nonreader population: typical nonreaders (the young, old, poor, and undereducated) and atypical nonreaders (middle-aged, upper income, highly educated adults who ignore the daily newspaper because of lack of time and dissatisfaction with content). (GT)

Notes that the percentage of daily newspapers that also produce a weekly or semiweekly edition has dwindled since 1876; outlines reasons for the continuance of the approximately 50 daily-weekly combinations in existence in 1978. (GT)

Reports that public service advertising attributed to the Advertising Council elicited higher message ratings than did public service advertising attributed to a commercial source, a noncommercial source, or no source; however, it produced the lowest behavioral responses. (GT)

An examination of data on FM construction permits shows that independent FM broadcasters have obtained construction permits in markets with larger adjusted populations than those where AM licensees were granted same-market permits. (GT)

An analysis of the coverage by four United States daily newspapers of the collapse of Nationalist China to the Communists in the 1940s reveals that, for all four newspapers, news out of and about China was just important enough to warrant some commentary, but not sustained analysis. (GT)

Unidimensionality of media exposure is found for low, but not for high, socioeconomic groups in a developing urban setting, reflecting socioeconomic constraints on access to media. (KS)

Investigates Asian and European students' perceptions of imbalance in international news reported in the United States media. Finds that both European and Asian students find bias in world news coverage in United States media, but notes that the more Western-oriented students are more critical of media coverage. (RS)

Examines geographical proximity as a contributing factor in source selection. Finds that proximity affects both the number and type of sources used. (RS)

Investigates patterns of college-student reactions to local television newscasts. Finds that significant audience adaptation does not occur during a 30-minute newscast and that there was no relationship between segment placement and level of viewer interest. Suggests that the audience rebound phenomenon overcomes the audience adaptation phenomenon…

Examines one aspect of human information processing, the "translation phenomenon," in which words are remembered as pictures and vice versa. Finds that translation is more likely to occur after the passage of 48 hours, and most often results in facts that were conveyed as narration being remembered as having been conveyed in video. (SR)

Investigates whether people perceive effects of mass media as being greater on others than on themselves. Finds that almost 90 percent of respondents judge themselves less influenced than others. Finds respondents with more education see others as even more likely to be influenced, with older respondents most likely to do so. (SR)

Contradicts chain spokesmen who insist that their endorsement policies during elections are independent of chain direction. (RB)