Reports news analysis material presented on a radio foreign affairs program between 1975 and 1979. Compares this report's findings with propositions generated by gatekeeper studies of international newsflow. Discusses how results do not sustain the argument that news offers an unchanging and unchangeable "world at one with itself." (JD)

Concise, authoritative background information on U.S.-China relations is provided for journalists in this guide, one of a series dealing with topics of interest to the U.S. media. The guide begins with a chronology of U.S.-China relations from 1979 to 1982. The texts of documents on U.S.-China relations are then presented. These include the…

Highlights and recommendations of a conference focusing on the conflict over international information policy are divided into two sections. First, the opening speech discusses the importance of the free flow of information, the historical growth and current dominance of information flow by Northern hemisphere countries, the roles of the New World…

Examines the key arguments used in U.S. criticism of the New World Information and Communication Order and suggests that these arguments were evoked to support the U.S. position on government control of the media. (MM)