Explores the possibility that "make-believe" violence on television affects children less than "real" violence, concluding that children's perceptions of violence differ from those of adults. (RB)

Suggests avenues to close the schism between research methodology and theory in mass communication. (RB)

Concludes 70 percent of all stories reported on weekday newscasts during a two-week period were covered by at least two networks and duplication was higher during the week than on weekends. (RB)

Presents research on the nonverbal aspects of messages conveyed by news and advertisements on television during the 1972 Presidential election campaign. (RB)

Reports that, for Dutch viewers, the televised debates between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter helped develop a presidential preference, regardless of the viewers' own political orientations, and that the debates may have benefited Carter. (GW)

Documents the range and extent of family life configurations in prime-time television over a six-year period (1979-1985). Reveals that prime-time network television tends to reinforce conservative to moderate models of family life, while also presenting a diversity of nonstandard interpretations of family which are framed in the nonthreatening…

Contrasts the demographic properties--gender, race, and age--of the perpetrators and receivers of antisocial and prosocial acts on prime-time network television. Concludes that antisocial activity has declined and that a White, middle-class male is now most likely to be the perpetrator or recipient. (MM)

Argues that the FCC prefers an unregulated marketplace for children's programing, but that it has not been shown that the marketplace will work for this program type. (FL)

Reports that television viewing ranked lowest on the preferred activity lists for busy mothers, but that the use of television as a "babysitter" is extensive. (FL)

Examines how Senator Kefauver felt about television and the publicity it generated both about him and the effects of the Senate committee he headed in the early l950s. Explores the lessons learned from the experience.(FL)

Concludes that advertisements for network television programs are more likely to emphasize sex and violence than are ads for affiliates and independents. (FL)

Reports on a study that (1) investigated the validity of the accusations that American television networks displayed an anti-Israeli bias in reporting the invasion of Lebanon and (2) analyzed the quality and quantity of network news coverage of the event. Concludes that CBS had the most assertions unfavorable to Israel. (FL)

Reports that inadequate air time and omission of detail are the most common objections by sources to science coverage on network news programs. (FL)

Concludes that fifth-, seventh-, ninth-, and eleventh-grade students learned more and understood more from television newscasts that used film. Finds also that even young children understand the structure of newscasts. (FL)

Concludes that first-, third-, and fifth-grade students' beliefs about whether television characters were representative of real-life people related to their mothers' statements. (FL)