Two stipulations would allow cable television to provide the best in journalism, informational broadcasting, and the associated public services: first, complete freedom of access, and second, all cable programming should be chosen and paid for by the viewer. Over-the-air broadcasting has regarded informational programming as an "inessential…

A quinmester journalism writing course that explores serious techniques used in effective articles that mold opinion is presented in this course guide. The course focuses upon responsibility, good taste, the problem of censorship, crusading, and propaganda techniques. Reading of editorials and columns and practice in writing are included.…

Like so many issues in a democratic society, bilingual programs have become entangled in a series of related problems, from other schooling policies to economics and, even, political squabbles. As a result, the whole subject of bilingual schooling seems to be dimly seen and easily misunderstood. Adding to the difficulties, the national media have…

Reveals that identification as a liberal publication was a significant factor in media treatment of Jackson's candidacy in only one of nine comparisons, while identification as a conservative publication was a factor in only three of nine. The most important independent factor was the identification of the publication as a newspaper. (FL)

Summarizes research dealing with a number of topics, including the following: (1) political communication and voter volatility, (2) daily newspaper publishers' preferences on reporter decision making, (3) media use by foreign students, and (4) coverage of discrimination cases in the "New York Times." (FL)

An interview with Wallace Westfeldt, NBC news executive who has been assigned to conduct a thorough study and evaluation of NBC news operations prior to assuming a new post after stepping down as executive producer of NBC-TV nightly news. (JM)

Describes how to set up a school public relations committee, consisting of parents, staff, and students, to promulgate a positive school image. Dealing with the press to counteract media stereotypes of education is emphasized. (SJL)

This author views the CBS report "Is Anyone Out There Learning?" as an attack on education based solely on ill-informed cliches and anachronistic assumptions, piously intoned by commentators Walter Cronkite and Charles Collingwood. All articles in this journal issue comment on this television program. (SJL)

Lists books, audiovisual materials, and organizations relevant to the First Amendment freedoms: freedom of speech and press, and censorship. (KC)

Examines the media depiction of the political climate in the 1970s as increasingly conservative, despite insubstantial evidence for the claim. (PD)

Reviews research on the role of scientists, mass media and journalists, audience interests and habits, information content and design on the dissemination of scientific information. (JMF)

Explains why some editorials do not attract readers' attention. Offers tips on improving editorials. (RL)

The repercussions of a controversy between the administration and student newspaper staff at Baylor University (Waco, Texas) included the loss of scholarships. (RL)

Highlights the development of objective news reporting in commercial newspapers and the rise of journalism as a profession, legitimating its major institutional role as the self-announced protector of the public good. (JMF)

Takes a single television news report and inquires into the strategies that governed the way it made its subject into a story. Suggests how to regard the discourse of television journalism in the nuclear era by attempting to describe the logic governing the creation of meaning. (MS)