Reports that most collective behavior events reported in the New York "Times" are described in terms of emotionality and anonymity of membership and are alleged to be violent and spontaneous, and that there are significant rank-order correlations between the reported presence of control agents, reported violence, and attributions of spontaneity.…

Examines coverage of the abortion issue prior to, during, and after the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing elective abortion in daily newspapers in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C. Considers the effect on news coverage of local religious composition, income levels, race, and abortion rate. (GW)

Reports that commercial television stations generally provided a greater percentage of public-interest programing in 1975 than in 1973, and that, while most stations meet Federal Communications Commission standards of 5 percent informational and 10 percent total nonentertainment programing, nearly 14 percent did not meet the 5 percent local…

Reports on a study of the agenda-setting function of the media in a rural central Illinois city, during an off-election year. (GW)

While data did not reveal blatant sex stereotyping in reporters' news stories, more subtle bias in assertions about job qualifications were present. (KS)

Reports findings of two experiments that provide support for the construct validity of the news bias categories. (FL)

Concludes that people who are older, more educated, and have a high surveillance need are more likely to be newspaper subscribers than are other types of people. (FL)

Summarizes six studies that look at (1) development news in two Asian countries, (2) U.S. media citations in "Neues Deutschland," (3) censoring ("editing") the comics, (4) how newspapers cover education in three countries, (5) newspaper advertisements in Canadian election campaigns, and (6) school-press relations. (FL)

A survey of Detroit daily newspapers shows that there has been dramatic improvement in the reporting of methodological information on polls. (FL)

Finds that education is the dominant factor in determining exposure to information about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and that exposure is the most important predictor of knowledge about the conflict. Concludes that newspaper use is more important than television news viewing in gaining knowledge. (FL)

Reports findings of a study suggesting that there is some truth in the claim that the news Third World countries receive from the American wire services is biased toward the West. Reports, however, that there is more Asian news on the Asia wire services of the American agencies than news of any other region. (FL)

Explores Guyana's efforts to articulate and implement a national information order that would redress past information imbalances. (FL)

Uses an Israeli incident to illustrate the value of exchange theory in understanding the relationship between protest group leaders and reporters. (FL)

Examines the Western territories that had newspapers in 1880 with those that did not to determine the factors that led potential publishers to accept or to reject a location. (FL)

Notes that while less than half of the radio stations in the United States have used the President's weekly radio broadcasts, they have nonetheless been widely covered by CBS, NBC, and the New York "Times." (FL)