This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that the media emphasis of issues serves to set the agenda of public awareness of those issues. Data were obtained from telephone interviews during the 1976 United States Presidential campaign from 658 voters in Pennsylvania and California. The issues of unemployment, inflation, and crime were…

Employing a "resource dependency" model from organizational theory, this paper explains the growth of newspaper cooperation out of publisher competition in Chicago (Illinois) journalism during the period 1880 to 1910. It suggests that publisher cooperation in business matters also resulted in a changed news coverage style and emphasis. It argues…

Three frontier newspapers in Michigan for the period July 1849 to July 1850 were analyzed to determine how women were depicted in the press of that time. The research concentrated on coverage in six areas: courtship and marriage; the role of women as wives and mothers; women depicted in literature; famous women; women's rights in the home, on the…

In a series of national polls conducted in 1975-1976 that had people record their activities over a 24-hour time period, researchers found that on a typical day more people read a newspaper than watched television news programs. Older adults were more likely to use both news media, while young adults were more likely to use no news medium. Over…

A two-part study was designed to measure the amount of good news and bad news in newspapers and to measure readers' recall of stories that represented good news and bad news. The stories used in the study appeared on the front pages and on one of the inside pages of eight California newspapers during October 1978. A total of 559 telephone…

This monograph investigates the relationship between media and personal authority. Specifically, the nature and possible effects of coverage by the Durham, North Carolina, "Morning Herald" of Duke University's former basketball coach, Raymond C. (Bucky) Waters, are compared to its treatment of a more conventional political…

The twofold research task of this investigation was (1) a systematic evaluation of professional orientation of Colorado newsmen; and (2) a determination of the relationship (if any) between the professional orientation of the newsmen studied and the actual performance of these newsmen's newspapers. The population for the study included all the…

In recent years, increasing concern with newspaper accuracy and credibility has led some people to question whether newspapers should use veiled, non-specific, attributions in news reporting. This study contains a content analysis of a sample of newspapers to determine the frequency and nature of veiled attributions as they are now employed. The…

Content analysis of editorials in 16 large-city newspapers reveals a pattern of support for free expression. (KS)

Although the coverage that the press gave of the Surgeon General's report on television and social behavior was confused and indefinite, few papers ran follow-up stories that might have explained the ambiguity. (KS)

Concludes that press coverage of the FDA's food irradiation proposal failed to give the public the information necessary for an informed decision on the process. (FL)

Concludes that whether a newspaper carries mostly good news or mostly bad news affects the image of the paper, with bad news having negative effects and good news having positive effects on readers' perceptions of the newspaper. (FL)

Finds that individuals exposed to a large amount of crime news are more likely to show concern with being a crime victim than those who are not. (FL)

Analyzes 67 daily and nondaily newspapers from six stratified United States regions: lower South, upper South, border states, middle states, North, and West for years 1820 through 1860 to determine how they covered the topic of slavery. Concludes that all newspapers increased slavery news coverage during that period, with Southern editors most…

Traces the development of the "new journalism" that appeared in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and shows how it influenced European news publications. (FL)