Concludes that high media users consider themselves less informed, view themselves as less serious, and prefer less personal solutions to problems. (RB)

Concludes there is a basic congruency in the way various types of black newspapers view political authority roles and institutions. (RB)

Reports the findings of an analysis of the impact of a major criminal event on the size of the total broadcast audience, on media-switching behavior, and on station-switching behavior. (GW)

Explores the contemporary relationship of India's cultural media and mass media, primarily through a content analysis of a sample of popular Indian newspapers and magazines. (GW)

Reviews relevant case law concerning attempts to recover damages from newspapers and other media sources for emotional distress independent of other injury. (KS)

Reports on two studies, conducted in Jerusalem, that indicated that those who saw and heard news recalled slightly more than those who only heard; difference in recall was greater among the best educated subjects. (KS)

Reports that most editorials favor deregulation and that ownership ties with television and radio stations seem to affect their stands. (FL)

Shows that economic and political factors rather than education or training are the strongest indicators of editors' views of the New World Information Order. (FL)

Examines the history of the Denson "Tribune," a newspaper published at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas, and the role of its editor, Paul Yokota. (FL)

Concludes that leaders and editors in communities in a more pluralistic region are more likely to perceive greater impact of nonlocal government and business agencies on local development projects than are leaders and editors of communities in less pluralistic regions. (FL)

Concludes that people selectively attend to campaign information based on its editorial format rather than its orignating format and that a surveillance/vote guidance motivation to attend to a campaign is more strongly related to degree of selectivity than is a diversion motivation. (FL)

Reports that the consent order ending the antitrust suit against AT&T keeps that conglomerate out of electronic publishing until l989 and keeps the 22 former Bell companies out indefinitely. (FL)

Investigates (1) who has the skills to access information by videotex and (2) to whom the service appeals. Concludes that computers and videotex are closely linked and that people who use computers have more positive attitudes toward videotex than those who do not. (FL)

Shows that coverage of work and workers in three Illinois papers was selective, with the emphasis on strikes and workers, not on employers. (FL)

Reports on a study that found that public relations practitioners respond in different ways to different moral-ethical dilemmas and that they tend to think they are accountable in some situations to an authority higher than management. Concludes that subjectivism is the prevailing moral-ethical theory of practitioners. (FL)