Search

Case studies of a wire service bureau and a radio station revealed that information overload had less effect than anticipated on news processing procedures. (FL)

Newspaper editors in two Ohio communities cooperated in a counterbalanced design field experiment to test whether proportions of news items in seven content areas transmitted by wire services served to cue editors as to proportions that should be selected from each category. (FL)

Reports on a study undertaken to determine whether status inconsistency (discrepancies within individuals regarding such factors as income, occupation, and education) would contribute additional explanation of variance in attention to public affairs media content beyond the effects of individual status predictors. (GT)

Examines the public understanding of how the news media operate. Factors affecting the different levels of knowledge about the media; Relationship between media use habits and other aspects of public affairs knowledge; Aspects of the media most likely to lead to increased media knowledge; Relationships between media knowledge and possible consequences of the knowledge.

Reviewed: The American Journalist: A Portrait of U.S. News People and Their Work. Weaver, David H. and Wilhoit, G. Cleveland.