Critics of international news flow characteristics have charged that news is biased toward the interests of the developed world and against the developing world, thereby giving an unrepresentative image of their countries to the United States reader. A study was conducted to examine the output and presentation of reports by foreign correspondents…

Content analysis of 5,190 news stories appearing on network weekday evening newscasts between May 1982 and April 1984 reveals under- and overrepresentations of geographic/political subdivisions and of individuals representing various social groups within the United States and internationally. More specifically, on "geographic" biases,…

A study was conducted to determine whether differences existed between national media and local media in their coverage of events that have national interest. Coverage of the riotous aftermath of the 1984 World Series in Detroit was examined by comparing Detroit's daily newspapers with other United States dailies. The hypothesis was that stories…

Author examined the development of WORDS system and attempted to place it in an historical framework. (Author/RK)

Examines the textbooks currently available to secondary teachers of English as sources of materials, ideas, and activities. (RB)

Twenty-two advertisements from "Reader's Digest" and twenty-two from "Retirement Living" magazine were analyzed in order to determine the way in which old people are portrayed. The advertisements were found to support the common societal stereotypes that old people are unproductive, prefer to associate with other old people rather than with…

Referring to contributions by P. Mohr and H. G. Hoffmann, six authors discuss the problem of the content of textbooks and reading texts. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Shows how the social values and cultural images presented on television influence human thought and behavior. See CS 702 316 for availability information. (RB)

Information science has in recent years developed an algorithmic procedure for content analysis of abstracts which includes setting up a metalanguage for a particular field of knowledge. Such a procedure may aid in solving problems of automatic text analysis in machine translation. (TL)

The Nolan and Heffernan (1974) analysis of the Rural Development Act of 1972 (RDA-72) is discussed. (NQ)

Discusses the graphics and visual layout of high school newspapers winning the 1975 Gallup Award for excellence in scholastic journalism. (RB)

Concludes that traditional and modern, renamed women's pages are not meeting the contemporary needs of American women. (RB)

Suggests ideas for planning the content of a school magazine, provides guidelines for evaluating stories for entry in the magazine, outlines procedures for training the advertising staff, and presents tips for layout design. (RB)