An Indiana survey of the media use of 108 older adults yielded information about their radio, television, and newspaper preferences. The results suggest that education, income, and sociability exerted as much, or more, influence on how the sample used the media than did their status as senior citizens. (GT)

An examination of "Time" magazine's treatment of four recent presidents indicates that "Time" continues to use the same techniques of biased reporting as were found in a 1965 study and that it continues to favor Republican presidents. (GT)

Reports on a study that explored two dimensions of Canadian attitudes toward the political integration of Quebec into the rest of Canada: (1) the front page and editorial output of the country's newspapers with respect to integration issues, and (2) the feedback on these issues, measured by the content of letters to newspaper editors. (Author/GT)

Reports on an investigation focusing on the interrelationships of certain media and nonmedia variables (including newspaper, television, and candidate image variables) that appeared to be operating in a way that influenced the outcome of 23 Texas mayoral races. (Author/GT)

Reports that no short term effects were found in children's physical or verbal aggression scores as a result of their exposure to violent comic books. (Author/FL)

Concludes that attention to the media during presidential campaigns accelerates the development of attitudes about candidates and thus facilitates making a voting decision; notes that less motivated individuals, who are likely to spend less time with the media, are slow in discriminating between candidates and more likely to report decision-making…

A content analysis of pretrial crime news stories in a national probability sample of newspapers found a rate of violation of American Bar Association guidelines of 1.13 per story, with violations occurring in 67.7 percent of the stories. (Author/GT)

Examines Kurt Lewin's theory of gatekeeping and the methods used by David Manning White in transposing Lewin's concept to communications situations. Reports on a study indicating that news magazine gatekeeping with respect to the population/family planning issue faithfully mirrors the perceptions of society. (GT)

An analysis of the coverage by ten newspapers of 20 United States Supreme Court decisions concerning freedom of the press and 20 decisions concerning freedom of speech revealed that the newspapers gave significantly greater coverage to the press decisions. (GT)

A survey of 266 adults supported previous findings that television is perceived to be a more credible, truthful, and important source of local news than the newspaper. (GT)

Finds that lay readers respond to the risk implicit in news stories involving science and technology along four factors: (1) the proposition that science and technology are expensive and risky; (2) the idea that science and technology can have negative effects; (3) concerns associated with control and dependency; and (4) fear that science and…

Examines recall of brief news stories by Spanish and American university students. Finds that subjects in both societies were virtually identical in their overall ability to recall news stories and that each of the two groups remembered the news stories presented by the four media (newspaper, computer screen, television, or radio) in markedly…

Supports the hypothesis that the mass media can play a significant role in the political socialization of children. (RB)

Concludes that the press may not be successful in telling people what to think, but it is successful in telling its readers what to think about. (RB)

Reports on a study designed to discover the nature of the flow of messages about recommended agricultural practices first introduced through the mass media in a developing country, and to explore the role opinion leaders plan in the process. (GW)