Reports on a study of the way in which three newspapers covered the Supreme Court decisions of the 1974 term. (Author/GW)

Analysis of major network television announcers' commentary shows that white players get more praise and less criticism than do comparable black players. (KS)

Factor analysis of responses of newspaper editors and broadcast news directors reveals professionalism as the dominant factor. (KS)

Analysis of reader response to fictional characters defined four factors: evaluation, dynamism, sex appeal, and temperament. (KS)

Reporters with little bias--"low participants"--produced the fairest and most accurate, objective, and comprehensive stories about John Dean. (KS)

Summarizes the results of content analyses of eight mass-circulation magazines in order to provide insight into the types and extent of environmental information presented in the 1970s. (KS)

Subjects perceived the increase in message length as an increase in importance of content. (KS)

Reveals that the rate of error detection was poorer with video display terminals than with pencil-and-paper editing; students using the terminals also took longer to detect errors. (KS)

A process is described by which teachers can ascertain how many and what kinds of media are available to their students at home and the extent to which they are using them. Guidelines and survey instrument are included. (Author/STS)

Application of Shneidman categories of logical structure to network newscast coverage was shown feasible in this study of the 1972 presidential campaign. (KS)

Analyzed the effects of suicide stories in television news programs from 1968 to 1985, on the suicide rates of various social groups. For 43 televised stories, suicides increased 7% in California. Contagion, or the "Werther effect" was significantly larger for teenagers. Also significant were age, race, sex, and day of the week. (Author/KS)

Argues that texts may be especially rhetorically effective when the content, the medium used to convey the content, and the real life experiences that make the content relevant are formally or structurally similar. Suggests that formal linkage creates rhetorical effect, and uses Burke's theory of forms to explain the effect of formal links. (MS)

Discusses the tradition of rhetorical theory and scholarship to sketch the chief characteristics of public communication. Suggests some implications for the study and criticism of contemporary media discourses of a rhetorical nature. (JK)

Finds that family use of teletext services declines over time as does viewing time. (FL)

Looks at magazine ads since the 1960s and concludes that more ads now have blacks and depict more blacks in professional roles. (FL)