A study examined how three major women's magazines handled cigarette advertisements and editorial copy about smoking-related health problems. Examined were issues of "Ms.,""Good Housekeeping," and "Seventeen" magazines from 1972, one year after the ban on television advertisements and the year "Ms." began…

The Sunshine Act, designed to encourage open meetings to increase public understanding of the governmental decision-making process, went into effect in March 1977. A total of 50 agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), are subject to the provisions of the Sunshine Act. The act lists 10 exemptions, any of which can result in…

A qualitative study designed to elicit the widest possible range of responses was conducted to determine the attitudes of journalists toward ethics. The study's three questions asked respondents (1) if they encountered ethical decisions in their jobs; (2) if not, why not; and (3) if so, how frequently and in what types of situations. Subjects were…

A study investigated how news photographs in "Time" and "Newsweek" have portrayed the world to their readers. News photographs about foreign nations were selected from 60 issues of each magazine for the years 1971, 1976, and 1980. The picture's subject, size, country, and source, and the section in which it appeared were…

A statistical summary of the newspaper industry for 1984 and previous years is presented in this brochure. Focusing primarily on the United States newspaper industry, the brochure also contains some information on Canadian newspapers. The brochure presents statistics in the following categories: (1) number of daily newspapers, (2) daily newspaper…

Time of final vote decision in a national presidential election campaign was explored as the dependent variable in a media effects study conducted earlier as part of the National Election Study of 1980. Political identity, a new measure of partisanship and independence known as the Partisan Supporter Typology, was used as an important contingent…

Intended for anyone interested in providing children with a quality alternative to current children's broadcast programing, this report presents the results of a survey of radio listening habits and attitudes. The report's introduction describes development of a pilot radio program for children by Children's Audio Service (CAS) unit of the…

This bibliography contains 143 listings under six main headings, with some overlapping of items. The stress is on recent works which update a 1969 bibliography of 400 items. (Author)

Supports the hypothesis that the news values of journalism students are strongly influenced by instructors in the course of only a single newswriting class. (Author/RB)

Concludes that the public's right to know affects the public employee's attitude toward information in his organization. (Author/RB)

This publication, the sixth in a series, presents abstracts of 149 publications on mass communication research and propaganda, written by social scientists in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Poland. For each abstract, information is provided about the language of the original document,…

Content analysis of seven newspapers during the 1972 Canadian federal election finds no evidence of collusion among editorialists of the chain-owned newspapers. (RB)

Supports the hypothesis that political caricatures are not static but can evolve over a relatively short period of time to reflect more positively or negatively on the person being caricatured. (RB)

A study examined whether advertising appeals based on product affiliation, achievement, and attributes would account for differences in male readership of liquor advertisements. The investigation focused on the relationship between the content of alcholic beverage advertisements and attention engagement, the first state in consumer information…

A study was conducted to compare "Time" and "Newsweek" magazines' fairness and coverage in the various presidential campaigns of the three Kennedy brothers. Researchers examined every story the two magazines published about John Kennedy's primary campaign, beginning January 1, 1960, and ending with his nomination at the…