Argues that quality yearbooks are products of planning, organization, and discipline. (RB)

The results of a study of women's roles as portrayed in picture books indicated that women are not shown in the variety of professional roles in which they are presently engaged. (BRT)

A group of 200 folk tales from four school readers was analyzed in terms of character types included, sex and age distribution of characters, affect content, story outcome, amount of aggressive behavior, and attitude content. (BRT)

Concludes that editors and publishers should put more emphasis on the availability of their product if they want to increase circulation. (RB)

Examines ten books published since World War II, and concludes that muckraking is very much alive today. (RB)

A content analysis plan is presented for determining the degree of sexism in a literary work. (JH)

Discusses the advantages of including a "theme page" in the high school newspaper and suggests several topics. (RB)

Proceeding from attempts (which are presented) at text-pragmatic discourse analysis, the article analyzes chanson and hit-song texts of similar theme, in their speaker-hearer relation as a process in the communication situation. The interpretation aspects gained produce an observation grid which should have validity also for school "text…

Presents the responses of ten of a total of seventy-three black press publishers, editors, and reporters who were asked in a national survey, "What is it that makes news?" (RB)

The focal image of the film "The Black Hole" functions as a visual metaphor for the sacred, order, unity, and eternal time. The black hole is a symbol that unites the antinomic pairs of conscious/unconscious, water/fire, immersion/emersion, death/rebirth, and hell/heaven. The black hole is further associated with the quest for…

To explore the theoretical relation of newspaper competition to overall news quality, a study used a model of newspaper competition based on economic assumptions to investigate whether the product quality of a newspaper is positively related to the financial expenditure on it, and whether newspaper circulation is positively related to quality.…

Six best-selling introductory behavioral statistics textbooks that were published in 1982 and two well-known sampling theory textbooks were reviewed to determine the presence of rules-of-thumb--useful principles with wide application that are not intended to be strictly accurate. The relative frequency and type of rules are reported along with a…

To test the thesis that most magazines for preschool children are not appropriate for the intended audience, an analysis was made of seven magazines published for children between 2 and 6 years of age. Periodicals selected for review were "Happy Times,""Highlights for Children,""Humpty Dumpty's…

Noting that television network coverage of hostage crises tends to emphasize the same topics while depicting them in similar ways, and that networks may be unwittingly granting legitimacy to terrorist grievances, a study investigated the nature of "NBC Nightly News" coverage of the Trans World Airline (TWA) hostage crisis. Specific…