Outlines the concentration of control of the news media, particularly newspapers in the United States. Discusses the influence of the constituencies of daily newspapers (the reader, the advertiser, and the stock market) in terms of their control of public information. (JMF)

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

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)

Explains how differential coverage of politics, policy, and personality regarding the same two events in three different media--a local newspaper, an elite newspaper, and television network news--reveals three different portraits of presidential concerns and actions. (MM)

Beginning with the official exchange of letters between Secretary of State Shultz and Unesco Director-General Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, this forum continues with responses from 28 international critics and supporters. Also included are two background pieces on the New International Information and Communications Order. (PD)

Describes the issues and interests to be discussed at the World Administrative Radio Conference in September, 1979. Includes definitions of principles for the use of the frequency spectrum, rights and duties of users, reallocation of frequency bands, and the need for principles to guide international cooperation. (JMF)

After World War II, the United States was the champion of communications as an international issue, but it has since become disenchanted with its formulation and debate. (PD)

Examines the process through which a fear appeal transforms low-involvement audiences into active publics. Analyzes cognitive and emotional responses of uninvolved viewers to a film on environmental contamination, together with coping strategies used to deal with the threat. Concludes that cognition and affect mediate viewers' responses to a…

This study of jury selection and verdicts is a part of a symposium on legislative and judicial communication. (CH)

This study of juror decision-making is part of a symposium on legislative and judicial communication. (CH)

Discusses how the use of unregulated mass media to convey the health risks of smoking is severely limited by the tobacco industry's power, via advertising dollars, to minimize the coverage of the negative health aspects of smoking in the editorial content of these media. (JD)

Expresses the opinion that the electronic media has emancipated man from natural law and, thus, enabled him to be dispensed from the moral law. (JMF)

Discusses the results of two surveys among newspaper editors and readers about newspaper attributes and readers' interest. Results indicate a compromise caused by the marketing approach. (JMF)

Reviews the events, studies, and comments (from 1960 to the present) regarding the controversial question of who won the first 1960 televised debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. Supports the view that, for television viewers, Kennedy was the winner, whereas radio listeners gave Nixon the edge. (SR)

Provides data from a study indicating that a majority of U.S. adults see others as more adversely affected by pornography than they themselves (consistent with third-person perception research). Finds that peoples' support for pornography restrictions parallels the discrepancy they perceive between effect on self and effect on others. (PA)