A Q-analysis of Egyptian elite groups identified three types of people: those oriented toward Egyptian media, particularly for entertainment value; those who distrust Egyptian media and prefer foreign media; and those who are essentially foreign-radio oriented but who get international information from Egyptian newspapers. (GW)

Family communication patterns and individual levels of dogmatism were found to influence the dogmatism attributed to television characters. (KS)

Examines users' preferences for broadcast and print media and asserts that the accurate definition of channel typologies is dependent upon consideration of both the audience needs addressed and the degree of effort required to receive the information. (KS)

Concludes that the content of Farsi-language papers reflected the changing power structure in Iran during the revolution more than did the English-language papers. (FL)

Argues that an appreciation of the religious milieu of the Zenger case can help to explain the nature of the defense, the meaning of the jury's verdict, and the ambiguous legacy of the trial for freedom of expression in the United States. (FL)

Concludes that reader enjoyment is related to both syntactic and semantic unpredictability. (FL)

Concludes that Western democracies tend to intervene in their press according to their economic philosophies rather than in terms of specific press policy. (FL)

Concludes that those who vote are more likely to use newspapers as sources of local and state political news than those who do not vote. (FL)

Examines the Hall-Mills murder case and the Browning separation--two events extensively covered by the press in the l920s--to see how they were shaped by the media into morality plays. (FL)

Reports that coders were able to judge adequately the difference between immediate reward and delayed reward in news stories but not the difference between subcategories. (FL)

Examines the Reagan administration's use of cost as an argument for amending the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Finds two general problems with the argument: (1) incomplete, inconsistent, and inaccurate reporting of FOIA costs and (2) agency attitudes that affected the cost estimates they presented. (FL)

Concludes that in the years since the revolution, Cuba has developed a modern mass media system that is fully used for national development. (FL)

Traces the public interest concept in libel to the time of "Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.," which supposedly rejected the concept, and beyond, demonstrating that the problem many free press advocates associate with the decision is really a consequence of the public interest test those same advocates cherish. (FL)

Concludes that eliteness of a nation as a news source is the most important criterion for news selection in the Canadian press. (FL)

Reports on a study that tested the applicability of drive-reduction and exposure learning models for gratifications received across three sources of political information. Concludes that the exposure learning model was more efficient for both newspaper and television news. (FL)