Reports on research that investigated the magnitude of knowledge gaps under varying levels of neighborhood newspaper publicity and organized group activities in an urban neighborhood. Concludes that high levels of group activity relate to both higher knowledge levels and greater knowledge gaps. (FL)

Reveals that Canada's daily newspapers display remarkable cultural affinities toward their readers' respective cultural homelands--the French-language newspapers toward France and the English-language ones toward the United Kingdom. (FL)

Notes that the courts have specific sanctions under the "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure" to ensure discovery in libel and invasion of privacy cases. Examines media-related cases in which courts have used these sanctions and relates them to nonmedia cases. (FL)

Argues that the rights of viewers to news coverage were sacrificed to commercial interests in the federal court decision concerning the ABC television network's refusal to grant a request of a television station to broadcast short clips of a local event to which the network had exclusive broadcast rights. (FL)

Reports on the Nigerian Supreme Court's struggles with the problems of interpreting colonial sedition laws while protecting democratic freedoms. (FL)

Concludes that federal courts subpoena reporters less often and uphold subpoenas less often than do state courts. (FL)

Concludes that women's section reporters are generally more similar to city editors than to their own section editors, suggesting that they may be influenced by factors external to their immediate role environments. (GT)

Reports results of a study of three daily newspapers in India, which was designed to determine who sets news and editorial policy in Indian newspapers and what the social processes are by which staff members come to perceive and conform to the policy. (GT)

Reports that the advent of television in South Africa has brought about some marked changes in newspaper readership patterns, for the most part accelerating trends that had begun before it started. Notes that the single most significant trend is toward an ever-increasing Black readership. (GT)

Content analyses of four Black newspapers during 1977 indicate that only one newspaper gave the Regents of the University of California v Bakke case substantial front-page coverage and suggest that most items provided only superficial facts about the case rather than interpretative information. (GT)

An analysis of 1938 newspaper editorials about Orson Welles' notorious "War of the Worlds" broadcast reveals that they explained audience reaction on the grounds of gullibility, the ominous threat of war, and the technique of the broadcast, and that they offered radio a rather stern lecture on the relationship between freedom and responsibility.…

Eight brief research reports concerning a newspaper's conversion to VDTs, media evaluation by police chiefs, defending and indemnifying reporters in tort actions, newsmagazine coverage of the Supreme Court, pricing of advertising in weekly newspapers, the importance of writing, "yeasaying" in readership surveys, and public service utilization by…

A content analysis of prestige press articles about the Middle East between 1966 and 1974 reveals a shift toward a more favorable image of Arabs, which is paralleled by a decline in public support for Israel and a slight increase in support for the Arab states. (GT)

An analysis of the content of "The New York Times" and "The Chicago Tribune" with regard to two issues involving executive vs congressional power indicates the extent to which dominant political values bias newspaper coverage. (GT)

Data from a study of the newspaper reading habits of 18- to 34-year-olds suggest that reading a daily newspaper is a habitual practice involving certain repetitive actions and that the newspaper habit is dependent on the tradition of newspaper reading in the home when the individual was growing up. (GT)