Examines news magazine accuracy by asking individuals who have been quoted in stories about the accuracy of the quotations. Finds that more than 90 percent of the stories examined were considered accurate by the sources. (FL)

Concludes that major market local television newscasts include substantial doses of helplessness, most of it at extreme levels. Specifically, members of the general public are often presented as helpless, and, by implication, so are television viewers. (FL)

Reports that, overall, 80 percent of the national and international stories in "Time" and "Newsweek" contain anonymous attribution. (FL)

Newspaper editors in two Ohio communities cooperated in a counterbalanced design field experiment to test whether proportions of news items in seven content areas transmitted by wire services served to cue editors as to proportions that should be selected from each category. (FL)

Reports that two of the three major television network newscasts had the same lead story more than 90 percent of the time and that all three had the same lead more than 40 percent of the time. (FL)

Reports that middle-level Chinese government officials are given almost verbatim translations of selected news stories and commentary from around the world in a publication called "News for Reference," which is widely distributed in China by the Hsinhua news agency. (FL)

Concludes that Canadian newspapers serving a specific geographic area or region exhibit many similarities. (FL)

Presents the findings of a survey of members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors revealing that they were ambivalent about the use of veiled attribution. Notes that editors of larger rather than smaller papers were more likely to see the need for it. (FL)

Reports that Connecticut's daily newspapers demonstrated a significantly higher utilization of local and regional wire services in 1967 than in 1976, and that there was a significantly higher utilization of wire service than of staff originated copy regardless of year. (GW)

Examines preferred media sources for four categories of special news--medicine, science, business, and consumer economics. Found that respondents ranked the media in the following order as preferred sources of specialized news: (1) local television affiliates, (2) local newspapers, (3) magazines, (4) radio, (5) cable networks, and (6) national…

Concludes that more than half of the stories on network newscasts contained anonymous source attributions. (FL)

Concludes that journalists and sources share notions about what aspects of a bureaucratic process are worth their attention and that journalists select information in a patterned way, with that pattern determined by the frames of reference of the sources. (FL)

Finds substantial agreement among major media as to the mix of various news topics but substantial disagreement as to which specific stories should be used. (FL)

Examines (1) whether previous research has actually measured the information content of ads; (2) how such content should be measured; and (3) trends in factual content of general magazine ads for 1958, 1968, and 1978. Concludes that while most ads contain nonfactual claims, most also have factual claims. (FL)