Reports a survey of reporters on larger newspapers showing a substantial difference of opinion on the use of tape recorders, note-taking, and off-the-record intereviews. (TO)

Reports a study examining the political advertising in the media and relates the findings to the voters' perception of the salience of the issues in the campaign. (TO)

Researches the role of the media in influencing the image of social reality that affects public attitudes, concluding that influence is strongest during times of social unrest. (RB)

Finds that newspapers are more credible than television in some aspects of reporting such as public affairs while television is believed more accurate in news of student protest. (RB)

Reports that adolescents learn consumer skills primarily from parents and from newspaper and television contact. (FL)

Reports that between World War II and the Viet Nam era, leftist journalist Carleton Beals found it hard to get his writings condemning Central American dictators published in the United States. (FL)

Examines two motivational models: a drive reduction model in which media use and satisfaction are directed by the gratifications people seek, and an exposure-learning model in which the gratifications are largely received as an accidental result of exposure to media. Concludes that both can be used effectively to represent media use and…

A content analysis of four Washington state newspapers published in 1948 reveals that they did not provide fair coverage of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee's investigation of communist infiltration at the University of Washington. (FL)

Analyzes a sample of nineteenth-century newspapers and argues that timeliness varied in value according to the origin of news such that technological improvements alone did not explain the decrease in time lag in news reporting. (FL)

Describes the development and validation of a method for pretesting the reader interest value of comic strips and cartoons so that the "best" ones may be selected for printing from the available options. (Author/GT)

A survey of 768 individuals from 13 Cleveland ethnic groups revealed that more than 50 percent read at least one ethnic newspaper, 30 percent read at least one ethnic magazine, and almost 75 percent listened to an ethnic radio program regularly. Metropolitan mass media use paralleled that of the general public. (GT)

An analysis of the foreign news in three North American colonial weekly newspapers from 1764 to 1775 indicates that there was a preponderance of news from Western Europe, especially from Great Britain, with only very minor amounts of news from other parts of the globe. (GT)

Reports results of a study of the extent to which a New York newspaper strike and a television blackout in the Netherlands caused feelings of frustration related to basic need gratifications, as well as the extent to which the observed gratification frustrations explained general irritation about missing the newspaper or television. (GT)

Surveys measures of press behavior; reports on the testing of J. Galtung and M. Ruge's theory about the structure of news. Concludes that there are three major dimensions to press response to events: the decision to record the event, and considerations regarding space allocation and reader attention. (GT)

Examines the themes of the war front news reported in certain South Korean and United States newspapers during the first 16 days of the Korean War; attempts to determine significant differences in the themes of war front news between the Korean and United States papers. (Author/GT)