Analyzes research conducted in Finland that explored reactions of school children to news dealing with the Gulf War. Highlights include the kind of knowledge accumulated about a media event, what impact it has on the school curriculum, and the relationship of news events to levels of anxiety and areas of interest. (Author/LRW)

This report deals with several questions concerning the Finnish people's conceptions of the mass media, especially in a situation when the introduction of a new medium, television, is changing the field of mass communication. The subjects for the survey were television owners and non-owners in Lapland. The questions dealt with in this descriptive…

The results of a survey conducted in 1975 were compared with the findings of three previous studies of Finnish public awareness of mass media to determine any changes or trends which might have occurred between the years 1967 and 1975. Data were reported in categories based on the public concept of (1) the most important mass medium, (2) the…