Concludes that media coverage of issues with political consequence raised during the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in 1979 was balanced. (FL)

Found considerable support for the hypothesis that voters who rely on television use candidates' image characteristics to make their voting choices more than do voters who rely on newspapers. Found little support for the second hypothesis that candidates' stands on issues will play a stronger role among voters who rely on newspapers. (PD)

Concludes that while mechanisms exist to enable news media defendants to file countersuits in nuisance and trivial suits, recent cases in the medical field indicate that the likelihood of success is slight. (FL)

Presents the results of study in which prime time television shows were rated by 85 adult volunteers in the Washington, D.C., area to determine how individuals with mental disorders were commonly portrayed by the mass media. A table summarizes the characteristics of mentally ill persons on prime time television. (JL)

Hypotheses that have related home television use to schooling are categorized. Available evidence about overall effects suggests a small effect on reading growth, hints at a tendency for socially advantaged children to be most vulnerable to effects, and is largely uniformative as to the validity of particular explanatory hypotheses. (Author/GK)

Concludes that more males than females read Canadian newspapers, and that persons between the ages of 30 and 49 are most likely to be nonreaders. (FL)

Reveals that political advertisements in newspapers covered more issues than did their counterparts in either radio or television in the 1978 gubernatorial campaign in Alabama. (FL)

Reports that audiences found newspaper advertisements to be more useful than those appearing in other media and that the more exposure a person had to a given medium, the more useful s/he perceived its advertisements to be. (FL)

Analyzes the questions posed by reporters and the answers given by President John F. Kennedy in his formal press conferences. Concludes that questions that followed the rules for interviewing set forth by experts produced better answers than those that did not follow rules. (FL)

A survey of 23 high school newspapers revealed factors contributing to a "winning" sports section, including methods of game coverage and the use of a sports column and sports features. (RL)

Reports the findings of a questionnaire survey that elicited the reactions of 216 school publications advisers on the performance of the national rating services. (FL)

Concludes that newspaper lifestyle pages--the new version of the "women's pages"--still devote most of their coverage to food, fashion, and romance. Notes that rural newspapers are the most likely to follow this pattern and metropolitan newspapers the least likely. (FL)

Focuses on major university collections of original radio materials, including news broadcasts, commentaries, entertainment programs, documentaries, and educational productions. The nine institutions listed possess the largest collections and best facilities for duplicating and permitting use of their materials. (PD)

An analysis of the typical daily activities of 202 residents of the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas provides more evidence of low involvement use of media as a means of filling available time than of high involvement, functional use. (GT)

Field research in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia indicates that only a relative handful of the world's nations are directly involved in collecting news from these countries; the research also reveals that vast regions of the Third World have little or no direct news-seeking contact with one another. (GT)