This paper examines treatment by the U.S. press of the Mexican, Cuban, and Chilean revolutions from a historical perspective, both using original research and synthesizing the research of others. On balance, the U.S. media have reported or commented on Latin American social revolutions mainly by exploiting sensation and ridicule. Economic…

Administrators offer advice on how to deal with the media. (IRT)

Reports on an investigation of the amount and partisan direction of editorial space that ten leading newspapers devoted to foreign affairs in the 1976 presidential election, and of the way in which the newspapers dealth with foreign policy issues. (GW)

Examines the media's response to Utah Congressional Representative Allan T. Howe's arrest for the misdemeanor charge of soliciting. (KS)

Explores the relationships between prosecutorial action and prosecutors' perceptions of how important pornography is to the public, press, and the prosecutors themselves. Specifically focuses on the factors that influence Indiana prosecutors' behavior with respect to pornography and concludes that they tend to respond to public and press opinion…

Analyzes editorial endorsements on the basis of ownership. Suggests that neither group-owned nor independently owned newspapers had much impact on the outcome of the statewide elections examined. Reveals that group newspapers are slightly more liberal in their endorsements. (MM)

Attempts to explain why, despite its importance and expensiveness, education is generally neglected in the American press. Suggests that a major reason might be a lack of reliable outcome measures in education, which limits the amount of "hard" educational news. (KH)

Reviews four major criticisms of media coverage of social science--oversimplification, premature closure, lack of concern with the methodological and theoretical competence of the social science reported, and biased selection--and concludes they are largely justified. Argues that such shortcomings are explicable, given the structure and operating…

Suggests that issues prominent in the news during the 1960s did not necessarily deserve the attention at the times they received it. (TO)

Discusses sex discrimination in the campus press editorial and advertising policies. (RB)

The study examines, within a conflict theory framework, the women's liberation movement in Los Angeles County at 2 points in time compared to the movement's image in 2 major, local newspapers. (FF)

Reported are the attitudes of two communities toward universities and students in general, and a state university in particular; results revealed public attitudes is different in important respects from what is reflected from local and national headlines and legislative reactions. (JB)

Describes the events that followed subsequent to the assignment of an all-black regimental unit to the Fort Brown military installation on the outskirts of Brownsville, Texas, in 1906, with reference to the reactions of the Brownsville residents, the Negro press, and white champions of the black cause, and to the actions of President Theodore…

Examines sample questions from a questionnaire and concludes that the collecting of figures by interviews or questions will never validate polls of public opinion on anything but simple questions. (RB)