Analyzes the content of local news presented on three television stations in Cincinnati, Ohio, in three different years. Concludes that the stations used sensationalism and human interest stories as reserves to maintain high ratings. (FL)

Reports that coverage of civil rights issues increased in "Ebony" after the passage of the 1964 civil rights law. Notes that photoeditorials were the main means of advocacy. (FL)

Notes that Canadian journalists accepted censorship during World War I with a minimum of complaint, viewing it as a necessary sacrifice for the war effort. (FL)

Provides an analysis of Supreme Court votes on 47 press-related cases showing that they form a scalable universe that is unidimensional. Suggests that that dimension is political predisposition. (FL)

Describes child-rearing information in contemporary popular literature, using content analysis of information appearing in seven popular magazines. (JOW)

Content analysis of three newspaper advice columns (Ann Landers, Abigail Van Buren, Joyce Brothers) shows that they refute myths about mental health and marriage more often than they support them. (FL)

Analyzed episodes of "All My Children" and "General Hospital," as reported in the 1980 issues of "Soap Opera Digest." Found that moral violations tended to be resolved consistently with traditional moral standards. Suggests that criticisms of soap operas' effects on morals may not be totally warranted. (PD)

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory was analyzed by readability formulas which represent varying criterion of comprehension from 50 to 90 percent. If an examiner wishes to ensure 90 percent comprehension of the inventory items, nine years of successful schooling seem necessary. (Author/SJL)

Focusing on those elements of children's preferences which link gender to social structure, the present study analyzes children's letters to Santa Claus. Findings show boys' and girls' requests to be similar when aspects of the child's world are measured and quite different when qualities representing the adult social order are measured.…

Analyzed letters published in China's official newspaper during 1967-68 and 1976-78. Demonstrates that the "letters to the editor" column is a chief institutionalized mechanism for the pursuit and resolution of conflict. (PD)

Discusses problems arising from the treatment of oral interpretation as communication. Two aspects of particular interest are the notion that the communicative situation demands a particular style of performance, most often described as suggestion; and the view that the audience is the most important single element in the interpretative situation.…

A 1977-1978 study revealed that intimate sexual acts on commercial prime time television occurred once or more per hour but that there was a distinct downward slope in the overall rate of occurrence from 1976 to 1978. The most prevalent sexual references were to intercourse among nonmarried partners. (GT)

An analysis of 37 cumulative news stories that appeared in "The New York Times" from 1925 to 1975 suggested that the informational linkages between segments of cumulative news stories were extremely weak and that none of the characteristics of cumulative news story construction changed significantly over the sample period. (GT)

Describes an automatic method, based upon a text structure analysis and using a relatively small dictionary, to extract significant phrases from the title and the abstract of scientific and technical documents. The information representation of the document is discussed with relation to the construction of the document information retrieval…

Suggests how college history teachers can help students understand the French aristocracy and its role in medieval society by using a twelfth century epic. "Raol de Cambrai" gives students a sense that the poem's action could have happened to real people. A content analysis of the poem's action and characters is included. (DB)