Examines attitudes and actions of small town mayors and city managers as they relate to the process of building the newspaper's coverage of issues the town government faces. Finds that efforts to set the press's agenda are related to the extent of the effort to influence press content. (RS)

Outlines the recent developments in migration laws and political unrest with respect to Communist Soviet authority and United States policies toward Soviet refugees. Developments in the Baltic states, Moldavia, East Germany, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia are discussed. (JS)

Britain's Labour Party suggests two areas for reform in youth education and training: (1) increase the numbers of 16- to 19-year-olds continuing full-time education and (2) improve post-16 training by fusing academic and technical education as well as developing alternative vocational training programs. (SK)

Reports extensive 1988 print and television coverage of child care topics, demonstrating that child care is not a passing media fad, but a major social issue that demands ongoing coverage. Gives statistics on families, children, and changes in population age groups and predicts child and elder care needs for the next decade. (NH)

Analyzes the importance of a critical pedagogy by examining its potentially transformative relations with the sphere of popular culture. The pedagogical relevance of popular culture is discussed. The notion of critical pedagogy as a form of cultural politics should be further developed. (Author/BJV)

A description is given of a course project which required college students to examine presidential candidates' positions on a variety of health issues. (IAH)

Argues that communications scholarship has had no significant impact on public policy. Argues that classical political economy offers an intellectual tradition with which the field ought to connect, and shows how certain problems can be approached in an integrated manner. Criticizes the field's failure to recognize multiple versions of critical…

Examines how social conditions can become social problems and argues that there are objective ways of determining the scale of a particular problem. The paper supports its argument through examinations of prohibition, the decline in tobacco consumption, and the war on drugs. (GLR)

Discusses Venezuela's information and communications technology infrastructure and usage patterns; examines future networking plans; and addresses political and economic considerations linked to the information and technology problems in Venezuela and in Latin America in general. (LRW)

Offers a case study of how local community newspapers reported a local political conflict. Finds that few of 42 stories on the conflict were balanced, but overall both sides got equal treatment. Sources were a major influence on coverage. (SR)

Uses a Burkean approach that focuses on identification arising out of his four master tropes to explicate how campaign communications (strategic or unintentional, from the campaigners themselves or from other sources) in the 1992 presidential campaign produce a development of meanings in which certain issues and images may establish interpretive…

Explains the National Issues Forums (NIF), a nonpartisan program of public-issue discussions designed to enable citizens to have a more effective voice in U.S. politics. The role of libraries in the NIF is discussed; resources the NIF provides are described; and public relations benefits to libraries that participate are considered. (LRW)

Describes how technical language can be manipulated and how technical words become politicized. Discusses technical language as a vehicle of change in corporate culture. Offers examples of judgment and controversy in technical writing. (SR)

Examines the problems inherent in being a black intellectual: the predicament of being caught between an insolent American society and an insouciant black community. The paper suggests various ways of understanding and transforming the problem. (GLR)

Outlines the controversy that erupted at Kirkwood High School in Missouri when the school newspaper ran a Planned Parenthood ad. Discusses actions taken by the school principal, students, the newspaper staff, the district superintendent, the school board, and the community. (SR)