Analyzes the extent of coverage, total year's publishing output, time lag between publication and review date, length of review, amount of actual criticism, reviewers, and policies of 30 publication reviews chosen from the 1972-74 lists of Notable Children's Books. (Author/CMV)

Concludes that individual professional textbooks on secondary reading do not necessarily reflect the extant information base or state-of-the-art in secondary reading. (GT)

An analysis of the editorials in ten leading newspapers during the 1976 presidential election shows that considerably more space was devoted to economic issues than to any other specific issue. (GT)

An evaluation of the content of three basal reading series show that they are changing with the times. Current readers are less likely than older readers to show sex and racial stereotyping and no longer show life as always happy. (Author/IRT)

A content analysis of the 23 prime time and Saturday morning television programs most popular with children suggested that in prime time programs, assertive and helping behavior were more frequent than aggression in efforts to solve problems, but that the rate of aggression was higher in Saturday programs. (GT)

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 the only significant factors explaining the amount of political news published by the Arkansas daily press during the 1972 senatorial primary election campaign were the size of the daily news hole and the number of wire services a newspaper used. (GT)

In the two-city study of Austin, Texas, and Chula Vista, California, the readers' perceptions of newspaper stories were measured by means of a 27-item semantic differential bipolar adjective scale called the Readers' News Value Scale. Readers also evaluated the General Newsworthiness of each article they read by checking a seven-point scale from…

An analysis of commercials on children's television programs shows that, with the advent of guidelines, some changes have been made, particularly in relation to vitamins, minerals, foods, and toys. Presentation techniques however contain increasing sex stereotyping and decreased presence of racial minorities. (LS)

A summary of Robin Lee Graham's true adventure story, "Dove." (DD)

Assesses the nature and quantity of physical intimacy on prime-time television programming between 1975-76 and concludes that program type is a critical predictor of the frequency and level of televised sexuality. (MH)

Discusses the findings of the eighth annual TV Violence Profile report confirming a sharp increase in televised violence across dramatic program categories. (MH)

Takes a look at three recent young adult novels that are stories of children abandoned by their parents, and shows how each retains the essential features of the Hansel and Gretel folktale, a prototype of abandonment stories. (SR)