Interviews with 150 community residents, 41 community leaders, and the staff of the community newspaper in a small town, as well as an analysis of the content of the newspaper, are used to examine relationships between the agendas of the various groups studied. Results indicated that leaders are significantly more likely than nonleaders are to say…

The purpose of this dissertation was to supply more precise information on the educational values of Afro-Americans in New York City so that policy might better incorporate these values and as a consequence reduce problems causing tensions related to the school system. A chronological chapter organization was used to better understand the changes…

Because of the influence which the Arab press in the U.S. had on Arab literature, it was thought advisable to record a history of its development and find the relation between the two. Ten different newspapers and magazines that directly relate to Arabic literature were examined: "Kawkab Amerika,""Al-Huda,""Mer'at…

The agenda-setting hypothesis that the media "cause" people to think about certain topics was tested in interviews with a panel of 69 residents of a small southern Illinois community in July 1975 and April 1976. Respondents were asked what they read in the daily newspaper and what local topics they had talked about recently. In addition,…

This book attempts to show how the relationship between the American daily press and other social institutions determines the press's definition of news, where it seeks news, and how that news is presented. Chapter 1 discusses news as a force of information, examines news as a sociological problem, and describes the difficulty of defining news.…

It was hypothesized in this study that, because of strong socialization pressures, gatekeepers would have stronger agreement and accuracy relations with the publisher than they would have with the audience and that the gatekeepers' congruency relations with the publisher and audience would not differ significantly. Additionally, research questions…

This thesis provides a format for the use of newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and movies in the secondary school classroom. It attempts to inform teachers of what materials are most appropriate to the interests and informational needs of high school students, and it attempts to provide a method to teach students how to systematically…

This study explores the dimensions of credibility in newspaper and television news and compares the dimensions of media credibility with those of interpersonal source credibility. Subjects, 401 Kent State University undergraduates, were given a 12-page questionnaire designed to assess attitudes toward the following: newspaper national and…

Random samples were drawn from the city directories of Columbus, Nebraska, and Grand Forks, North Dakota, for a study of the ability of readers to detect and differentiate between straight news and editorials. Each respondent completed a Likert-type instrument, which had a split-half reliability of 0.87. Analyses indicated that there were…

To investigate whether certain sections of the newspaper could be used effectively in teaching critical reading and thinking skills to educationally disadvantaged adults, 29 students enrolled in a developmental reading class were instructed for eight weeks using specific newspaper articles to develop critical and analytical skills. A control group…

This multivariate study examined attitudinal and demographic variables affecting the degree of foreign news exposure on the basis of the data collected from 102 daily newspaper readers in Carbondale, Illinois. The data were obtained in personal interviews with the respondents. The ultimate goal of the study was to contribute to the investigation…

This Masters Thesis from the Ohio State University examines the trend in coverage of environmental problems in two newspapers from 1962-1977. Data were gathered by analyzing the content of the "Chicago Tribune" and "New York Times." Environmental stories from 24 selected issues per year were coded and analyzed using the…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived effectiveness of existing practices in school/media relations; to report on responsibility in school/media relations as perceived by superintendents of schools, the editors of daily newspapers, and television news directors; and to discover the perceived relative importance of each of 40…

This study sought to determine the perceptions of U.S daily newspaper publishers, editors, and education reporters regarding the desirability and feasibility of three approaches to increasing education news coverage: increased traditional local emphasis on education news coverage by daily newspapers, expanded wire service coverage of education,…

This study was conducted to determine the reading difficulty of commonly available, mass political literature, thereby to determine the reading level necessary to comprehend the bulk of these materials. Material was sampled from three issues of each source--three newspapers and three magazines--during convention and election time periods. To…