Offers case studies of the newspaper coverage of similar events--the strife in Cambodia and East Timor and elections in El Salvador and Nicaragua--to illustrate that a propaganda framework is frequently applicable to media coverage of important issues, resulting in a possible absence of diversity of opinion. (PD)

Examines 82 journal articles that dealt with an event or trend in the past to explain the past, classifying each as using a conventional or unconventional approach to the subject covered. Concludes that while articles were generally conventional in approach, there was more experimentation than previously thought. (FL)

Reveals a trend toward more emphasis on images and less on issues in political advertising and news. (FL)

Concludes that the ads of winners in state contests in Alabama developed issues more than did the ads of losers, but that in federal races, there was less difference in the use of issues. (FL)

Reviews sample of weekly news magazines from period 1968-1973 and concludes that topic of Vietnam did not dominate the copy printed. Magazines did not concentrate on American troops in battle, thus giving the American people constant pictorial accounts of the war, and coverage did not become more bloody between 1968 and 1973, thus causing a shift…

Concludes that most high school history textbooks have little coverage of major events in the history of journalism. (FL)

Finds that newspapers are more credible than television in some aspects of reporting such as public affairs while television is believed more accurate in news of student protest. (RB)

A content analysis of four Washington state newspapers published in 1948 reveals that they did not provide fair coverage of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee's investigation of communist infiltration at the University of Washington. (FL)

Concludes that by distancing themselves from highly competitive but tainted phenomena, newsworkers and their organizations are able to meet their fundamental role obligation to create news while minimizing threats to their professional autonomy. Presents three examples of such attempts. (PD)

Analyzes a sample of nineteenth-century newspapers and argues that timeliness varied in value according to the origin of news such that technological improvements alone did not explain the decrease in time lag in news reporting. (FL)

A study of Eurovision-Intervision news exchange patterns suggests that any global explanation for imbalance will be premature until the news item values in each exchange are understood as clearly as its news item volume. (PD)

An analysis of the foreign news in three North American colonial weekly newspapers from 1764 to 1775 indicates that there was a preponderance of news from Western Europe, especially from Great Britain, with only very minor amounts of news from other parts of the globe. (GT)

Analyzes newspaper readers' evaluations of specific categories of newspaper content, including four advertising categories. Shows that reader demand for advertising was lower than for news, although most readers desired the same amount or more advertising in their newspaper. (RL)

Examines the themes of the war front news reported in certain South Korean and United States newspapers during the first 16 days of the Korean War; attempts to determine significant differences in the themes of war front news between the Korean and United States papers. (Author/GT)

An analysis of issue-oriented and event-oriented social issues stories in eight major daily newspapers revealed that 61.3 percent of all sentences analyzed were not attributed to a source. (GT)