Reports that more than three-fourths of surveyed Hispanics never read Spanish-language publications. Finds mixed evidence on the relationship between use of Spanish language media and acculturation. (FL)

Examines the usefulness of constructs tapping "external" and "internal" influences on statehouse reporters in Michigan and Indiana. (FL)

Concludes that most Japanese Diet members meet reporters to transmit and to receive information but also to maintain good relations with the press. (FL)

Concludes that the ads of winners in state contests in Alabama developed issues more than did the ads of losers, but that in federal races, there was less difference in the use of issues. (FL)

Reviews sample of weekly news magazines from period 1968-1973 and concludes that topic of Vietnam did not dominate the copy printed. Magazines did not concentrate on American troops in battle, thus giving the American people constant pictorial accounts of the war, and coverage did not become more bloody between 1968 and 1973, thus causing a shift…

Concludes (1) that female newspaper managers are strongly committed to their jobs, (2) that they are setting goals but that their personal goals and those of the company have little connection, and (3) that most women expect to reach no more than two titles up from their present positions in the next five years. (FL)

Discusses the "single publication" rule, which protects media against a multiplicity of suits based upon the same utterance and limits the time period for bringing lawsuits. Reviews problems that have occurred because of the misuse of the rule. (FL)

Concludes that in a state election, the public is exposed to a combination of policy and personal messages in the advertisements created by a candidate but that the overwhelming majority of these ads focus on the personal. (FL)

Concludes that newsmagazines leave a lot of Supreme Court decisions unreported, concentrating on "major" decisions, particularly those dealing with the First Amendment. (FL)

Notes that the percentage of minority employees in California newspaper and television newsrooms has increased since 1979. (FL)

Concludes that most high school history textbooks have little coverage of major events in the history of journalism. (FL)

Concludes that voter response varies with the content theme, but that backlash or boomerang may be the most common effect of negative political advertising. (FL)

Reports that the media were perceived by the public as having considerable influence on community affairs in comparison to a number of other groups in the private sector. (FL)

Concludes that both reporters and information sources felt bias was less after newspaper mergers, but that political ideology shaped the source's perceptions about the bias. (FL)