Reports that beliefs about truth and anxiety over the Cold War period shaped the art of political cartoonists of the 1950s. (FL)

Reports that Nigeria has two sets of broadcasting systems, one run by the federal government and the other by the states. Discusses various problems with the systems. (FL)

Analyzes the environmental content of a number of general and specialized magazines for the period 1966-1975. (FL)

Traces the career of Mrs. Martha Louise Rayne, writer and founder of a school of journalism for women in 1886. (FL)

Seeks to discover the uniqueness of the American newspaper as a business in the nineteenth century and to explain how this uniqueness helped shape the editorial values of editors and proprietors. (FL)

A survey of Swedish newspaper editors reveals that there is still a willingness to criticize the government in the papers, even though they are supported by subsidies. Shows also that the subsidies have mostly benefited the low circulation papers and have encouraged waste. (FL)

Presents a social systems framework for mass communications research and traces the evolution of the model. (TO)

Presents and analyzes the most important laws that affected freedom of expression and the press in post-junta Greece. (FL)

Explores the effects on one of President Jimmy Carter's major opinion-shaping efforts on individuals' beliefs about the energy crisis. Concludes that his "Energy Week" may have caused people to take the crisis more seriously, but did not change their attitudes about energy matters. (FL)

Concludes that voters need a frame or a point of reference for determining the campaign relevance of issues and that, therefore, framing is a crucial consideration in the media agenda-setting process. (FL)

Examines issues of the three Minneapolis, Minnesota newspapers publishing in the period 1900-1905 to determine their role in exposing malfeasance in government. (FL)

Presents summaries of eight research reports. Topics discussed include (1) television use and social stereotypes, (2) a magazine for Arab women, (3) television newswomen in Texas, (4) sensationalism and science issues, (5) datelines and news stories, and (6) the content of paid and free circulation weeklies. (FL)

Analyzes nineteenth-century newspapers to show that reformers and journalists then believed in the political power of information and used political information and agenda-setting as tools for gaining political power. Suggests that political science agenda-setting models are better than those from communication research for understanding past…

Eight brief research reports concerning, among other topics, the world news coverage of United States and international broadcasters, the image of the adolescent in the English press, the content of Taiwan's English and Chinese press, and newspaper inaccuracies and readers' perception of bias. (FL)