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Tidwell, James – Community College Journalist, 1977
Discusses the conflict between the adviser of a junior college student newspaper and the college administration, regarding the newspaper's right to publish editorials reflecting criticism of administrators. (GW)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Censorship, Conflict, Editorials

Brown, Trevor – Journalism Quarterly, 1980
Examines the way in which United States journalists covered the views of the South African Black leader Steven Biko both before and after his death in prison in 1977; concludes that the coverage did not provide readers with an adequate understanding of Biko, his organizations, or his life. (GT)
Descriptors: Black Leadership, Black Organizations, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries

O'Reilly, Kenneth – Journalism Quarterly, 1979
The reaction of Great Britain's influential conservative newspaper, the "Times" of London, to the Russian Revolution of November 1917, offers an example of emotional and zealous journalism. (Author)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, History, Intellectual History
Mitchell, Pama A. – 1989
A study focused on how the broadcasting and advertising industries dealt publicly, through the medium of the trade journal, with political pressures shortly after the end of the Second World War. Was blacklisting and the political screening of talent acknowledged in the trade press? If so, did the publications approve or disapprove of the methods…
Descriptors: Advertising, Broadcast Industry, Commercial Television, Communism
Trager, Robert; Chamberlin, Bill F. – 1987
Since the 1974 Supreme Court dicta in "Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.," many courts have held that statement of opinion is constitutionally protected. However, statements that appear to be opinion based on undisclosed facts or knowledge not generally known to the public can be an exception. For instance, courts have protected specific…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Freedom of Speech, Higher Education
St. Dizier, Byron – 1986
Questionnaires were sent to 114 of the 228 editorial page editors at newspapers in the United States with daily circulations greater than 50,000 for a study that compared (1) the editor-publisher relationship existing at chains to that found at independent papers, and (2) the 1984 presidential endorsements made by chains to those by independent…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Editorials, Editors, Journalism
The Office of Censorship's Attempt to Control Press Coverage of the Atomic Bomb during World War II.
Washburn, Patrick S. – 1988
The Office of Censorship's struggle to keep journalists from revealing the development of the first atomic bomb, the sites where the development was taking place, and the fact that the bomb might be available for use in the war, was desperate and in many ways heroic. Soon after it was created on December 19, 1941, the office issued a voluntary…
Descriptors: Censorship, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Speech, Government Role
Warden, Michael L. – 1988
Exclusion of the press from the first days of the American invasion of Grenada dramatically brought into focus the fundamental conflict between the military's need for secrecy and the press's need to publish information. From the viewpoint of the press, the decision to exclude reporters from the island until the third day of the invasion denied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Freedom of Information, Government Role, Intervention
Lentz, Richard – 1984
Between 1964 and 1968, "U. S. News and World Report" engaged in symbolic discourse with its readership through its coverage of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "U. S. News" faced a dilemma in the mingling of King's force as a symbol with the power exerted by the egalitarian principles that Gunnar Myrdal identified as components of…
Descriptors: Black History, Black Leadership, Higher Education, Journalism
Winter, James P.; And Others – 1982
Two unrelated studies investigated issues in newspaper journalism. The first, a replication of an earlier study, examined whether the priority given by newspapers to reporting local news was warranted. Respondents in three areas of the country were asked to rate their interest in various types of news on a five-point scale. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Editorials, Elections, Journalism, Local Issues
Associated Press Managing Editors. – 1983
Prepared by members of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Committee of the Associated Press Managing Editors (AMPE), this collection of articles deals with a variety of issues concerning freedom of the press. Following a list of members of the committee, the major articles in the collection are: (1) "Massive Libel Suits Threaten Freedom of All…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Freedom of Speech, Government Role, Higher Education
Reilly, Tom – 1976
A number of scholars have found that wartime conditions often bring about conflict between the press and the military. This study documents the various incidents between the United States Army and various Mexican and United States newspaper editors that led to at least ten cases of newspaper suppression, the occasional use of prior censorship, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Armed Forces, Censorship, Foreign Countries
Barrett, Marvin; Sklar, Zachary – 1980
This book, the seventh in a series surveying broadcast journalism, provides behind-the-scenes details of news coverage during 1978-79, evaluating the growth and sophistication of the news media. The first section of the book discusses the treatment of major issues and news events, including the "odd couple" of politics and broadcasting,…
Descriptors: Government Role, Journalism, News Media, News Reporting
Burd, Gene – 1980
It is difficult for newspaper editors and reporters to maintain journalistic objectivity when covering a city's urban structure and development because of their traditional civic involvement and because of a civic ideology shared with urban experts and chamber of commerce boosters. News values and editorial policy are often implicit varieties of…
Descriptors: Bias, Citizen Participation, Community, Community Attitudes
Taylor, Arthur R. – 1975
Among the causes of the recent breakdown of the business/press relationship is the increasing public and press questioning of business, coupled with the failure of business leaders to explain the benefits of the free enterprise system. This failure, caused largely by the direction of business leaders' energies inward toward their companies rather…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Business, Communication Problems, Credibility