Shows how production formats can be compatible with ideological statements without explicitly intending to be so. (FL)

Examines the activities of K. Cooper, an early general manager of the Associated Press, and explores what appears to be a contradiction between his insistance on unhampered international news flow and his desire to receive government aid in order to expand AP's operations abroad. (FL)

Examines local newspaper coverage of a city legislative body to provide some systematic evidence on the source-media relationship in a nonelection agenda-setting context. (FL)

Offers case studies of the newspaper coverage of similar events--the strife in Cambodia and East Timor and elections in El Salvador and Nicaragua--to illustrate that a propaganda framework is frequently applicable to media coverage of important issues, resulting in a possible absence of diversity of opinion. (PD)

Compares Minnesota newspapers from l965 with those from l979 to show that conflict reporting has increased as society has become more pluralistic. (FL)

Defines negligent infliction of emotional distress, traces the development of such suits brought in the nonmedia context, analyzes actions brought against the mass media, and considers their implications. (FL)

Examines 82 journal articles that dealt with an event or trend in the past to explain the past, classifying each as using a conventional or unconventional approach to the subject covered. Concludes that while articles were generally conventional in approach, there was more experimentation than previously thought. (FL)

Reveals a trend toward more emphasis on images and less on issues in political advertising and news. (FL)

Reports that more than three-fourths of surveyed Hispanics never read Spanish-language publications. Finds mixed evidence on the relationship between use of Spanish language media and acculturation. (FL)

Examines the usefulness of constructs tapping "external" and "internal" influences on statehouse reporters in Michigan and Indiana. (FL)

Concludes that most Japanese Diet members meet reporters to transmit and to receive information but also to maintain good relations with the press. (FL)

Concludes that the ads of winners in state contests in Alabama developed issues more than did the ads of losers, but that in federal races, there was less difference in the use of issues. (FL)

Defines pornography, the aspect of sexuality which evokes most attention from the media, and discusses findings of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography and of psychologists who have recently found that exposure to a portrayal where violence and sex are coupled does increase subsequent aggression toward a female. (MBR)

Reviews sample of weekly news magazines from period 1968-1973 and concludes that topic of Vietnam did not dominate the copy printed. Magazines did not concentrate on American troops in battle, thus giving the American people constant pictorial accounts of the war, and coverage did not become more bloody between 1968 and 1973, thus causing a shift…

Concludes (1) that female newspaper managers are strongly committed to their jobs, (2) that they are setting goals but that their personal goals and those of the company have little connection, and (3) that most women expect to reach no more than two titles up from their present positions in the next five years. (FL)