Reports that adolescents learn consumer skills primarily from parents and from newspaper and television contact. (FL)

Reports that between World War II and the Viet Nam era, leftist journalist Carleton Beals found it hard to get his writings condemning Central American dictators published in the United States. (FL)

According to a survey of graduate journalism schools, many journalism instructors are telling students that the current state of international affairs reporting is not good and is getting worse. (HOD)

Analysis of the data strongly suggests that a sense of obligation to stay informed about current events is related to daily newspaper reading. More than four out of five high scorers on the Guttman civic attitudes scale were daily newspaper readers. (PD)

Examines two motivational models: a drive reduction model in which media use and satisfaction are directed by the gratifications people seek, and an exposure-learning model in which the gratifications are largely received as an accidental result of exposure to media. Concludes that both can be used effectively to represent media use and…

A content analysis of four Washington state newspapers published in 1948 reveals that they did not provide fair coverage of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee's investigation of communist infiltration at the University of Washington. (FL)

Describes a study in which 245 university students ranked their preferences among typographical variants of typeface, size, emphasis, and interline space in 16 paragraphs. Six references are listed. (CHC)

Examined media dependency involving the interaction of exposure to television viewing, exposure to newspapers, and the expressions of reliance on one medium or the other. Concluded, among other findings, that individuals who rely on a particular medium are better able to extract political information through exposure to that medium. (PD)

Concludes that by distancing themselves from highly competitive but tainted phenomena, newsworkers and their organizations are able to meet their fundamental role obligation to create news while minimizing threats to their professional autonomy. Presents three examples of such attempts. (PD)

Explored the consequences of continued exposure to pornography on beliefs about sexuality in general and on dispositions toward women in particular. Found that massive exposure to pornography resulted in a loss of compassion toward women as rape victims and toward women in general. (PD)

Analyzes a sample of nineteenth-century newspapers and argues that timeliness varied in value according to the origin of news such that technological improvements alone did not explain the decrease in time lag in news reporting. (FL)

Describes the methodology and results of a study of the preferences of fourth- and fifth-grade children for film form and technique. Indicates that children prefer narrative/live action films, followed by narrative/animation, nonnarrative/live action, and nonnarrative/animation. (HTH)

A study of Eurovision-Intervision news exchange patterns suggests that any global explanation for imbalance will be premature until the news item values in each exchange are understood as clearly as its news item volume. (PD)

This study of the capacity of television to influence children's attitudes and behavior towards other racial groups examined children's playmate preference after viewing racially integrated television programs. Testing for delayed effects and generalization of effects extended previous work in the area. (JVP)

Explores the role children's cartoon programs may play in forming sex role identities in children through the presentation of sex-typed personality attributes of the cartoon characters. Fourteen dependent variables of cartoon character personality were analyzed by sex of the character and sex of the viewer. (JVP)