Deals with an open-government innovation that many cities are adopting: television coverage of city council meetings. Survey data show that less-educated, lower-income, and minority individuals watch the coverage at least as much as the more-advantaged segments of the community. Reasons for television viewing are explored. (PD)

Disputes previous research findings that the amount of time spent viewing television declines significantly during the adolescent years. (FL)

Reviews literature concerning television's role in influencing child violence and delinquency and presents data from a survey of 3500 students in three public schools. Concludes that studying media variables--program preference, for instance--is more rewarding than trying to establish a direct link between television and aggressive behavior. (KH)

Reviews research and data regarding the effects of television violence on viewers, especially children. (GC)

This study investigated Israeli adolescents' differential perceptions of social conflicts in the "real" world and in television news. Overall results suggest that, when asked to do so, adolescents are able to differentiate between the social conflicts and their symbolic representations in television news. (PD)

Identifies five reporter publics for corporate public affairs programs, some of whom are motivated by personal interests, others by institutional factors. (FL)

Media portrayals involving sexuality can contribute to the sexual socialization of young people. If television is an important source of information and potential influence about sex for young people, then obviously it is important to understand the nature and extent of sexual information that is being conveyed by television. This report contains…

Senior vice president of ABC News discusses ways to make the most of television news, and ways to lead students into sources of the news. (GB)

Despite its unusual potential, both educational and social, it seems that Sesame Street may be exposing children to unnecessary aggression...(which) often goes unpunished and, occasionally, is actively rewarded." (Author)

Suggests that the popularity of television programing is due to its catering to the public's reluctance to cope with "the other and resistance to change in interpersonal behavior. (RW)

Reprint from American Education, August-September 1969.

Found that sixth- and eighth-grade children (1) predicted a greater proportion of positive outcomes for television entertainment events than for television news events and (2) rated news events as more likely to happen in everyday life than entertainment events. Concluded that children can discriminate between the two facets of television reality.…