While data did not reveal blatant sex stereotyping in reporters' news stories, more subtle bias in assertions about job qualifications were present. (KS)

Reports that the position in a news story of biasing information about a robbery suspect had little effect on judgments of the suspect's innocence or guilt. (GT)

Reveals that survey respondents who agree to complete time-use diaries differ significantly in several characteristics from those respondents who are only willing to complete a questionnaire. (FL)

Concludes that while news about the Third World is not underemphasized in the "New York Times" and the "Chicago Tribune," negative news is played up more in both than is news from other areas. (FL)

Reports that while "personalism"/surveillance and competence/trust ratings predict user satisfaction with newspapers, bias ratings do not. (FL)

Concludes that the extent of reporters' agreement with messages from an information source affects the choice of supportive items. (RB)

An analysis of the use by 23 newspapers of material from the three major commercial television network interview programs--"Issues and Answers" (ABC), "Face the Nation" (CBS), and "Meet the Press" (NBC)--suggests that newspapers associated with television stations do not give preference to materials from their own…

An analysis of the election stories about presidential candidates that appeared in three major news magazines during the 1976 presidential campaign reveals that coverage of Eugene McCarthy's candidacy was unbiased but meager. (GT)

Concludes that with several exceptions that there was no bias on the part of the news media in covering the 1972 election campaign. (RB)

Reports on an analysis of data in two Houston daily newspapers, which indicates that the distribution of crimes reported in the press is markedly dissimilar from the distribution of crimes reported to the police; concludes that newspaper readers are given a distorted view of the reality of crime. (GW)

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

Refutes a study originally published by Edith Efron which contended that network television news coverage of the 1968 presidential campaign was biased, concluding that campaign coverage was positive for both presidential candidates. (RB)

Interviews with 1,034 respondents shortly before the 1972 presidential election, and with 701 of these respondents shortly after the election, revealed that a small proportion perceived political bias in television news, a larger proportion perceived biases in newspaper reporting, and the vast majority saw no political bias in either medium. (GT)

Reports that (1) the length and number of news items about aging and the aged in 10 metropolitan newspapers were disproportionate to the proportion of aged persons in the population, and (2) the tone of such newspaper stories was positive or neutral. (GT)