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Comments on the job role of White House press reporters. Information that the profession of journalism can kill the reporter, sentencing him or her to the living journalistic death of taking down announcements and passing them on; Efforts made by press offices to make sure that their reporters do not miss any news; Discussion on chances given to reporters by their employers to go on a trip for covering presidential press conferences.

Comments on the state of the press in the U.S. Observations on the increasing power and privileges of the U.S. press with journalists being treated as celebrities with deteriorating quality of journalism; Discussion on the functions of a good newspaper with emphasis on the citation of comments by one of the greatest editors of the 19th century C.P. Scott.

Discusses the attitude of the media towards the Watergate scandal in the U.S. Report that the U.S. press and mass media have been engaged in a frenzy of self-congratulation and defensiveness about its performance in the Watergate scandal and afterward; Comment on the coverage of daily life in the U.S. that is distorted by the worship of celebrity; Reduction of news to gossip; Description of sensationalism and poor political and social discourse; Comment on the mythology that has come to surround investigative journalism.

Focuses on the proposed implementation of the right-to-reply law in the U.S. Publication of the reply of political candidate in the newspaper; Growth of media monopolies; Freedom of the press; Judgment on Florida's right-to-reply law; Fair campaign practices statute passed in 1913 by the Florida legislature; Absence of conflict between the right-to-reply law and the First Amendment; Self-criticism of the press.

Offers a look at the first six months of John Lindsay as mayor of New York City in 1966. Resemblance between Lindsay and the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy; Achievements of Lindsay; List of challenges faced by the city; Information on the relations of Lindsay with the press; Policies set forth by Lindsay.

Reflects on the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's issuance of White House press guidelines requiring aides to get clearance from the Office of Communications director David Gergen before granting interviews, and encouraging those who are authorized to talk to do so on record. Background on the guidelines that were drafted in response to a spate of leaks about the budget and intramural White House conflict; Reporters' denouncement of the guidelines as a gag order, claiming that some aides have been prevented from talking, which inhibits the press' ability to get to the bottom of an issue; Efforts of the White House to be more generous about making authorized spokespersons available since the guidelines came down; Calls for the White House to lift the gag order because its moment of crisis is over and genuine good news has started to emerge.

Focuses on several newspapers published in the U.S. Comments on the people who have funded for the newspaper "Washington Times"; Discussion of Warren Adler, founder of the newspaper "Dossier"; Reasons for the popularity of the newspaper "Washington Times" in the U.S.; Circulation of the newspaper "The News World" in the U.S.; Comparison of the "Washington Times" with any other conservative newspaper in the U.S.

Focuses on the departure of the U.S. armed forces from Somalia. Comments on the media opportunities for journalists covering the war in that country; Discussion of the training of soldiers on how to deal with the press; Exacerbation of the clan war in case all foreign troops leave; Expectation of the start of civil war once the American soldiers leave Somalia.

Comments on the revival of the question of elitist posture of editorial pages arising from "The Philadelphia Inquirer" newspaper's publication of an editorial proposing that welfare mothers be given incentives to use the long-term contraceptive Norplant to ameliorate the impoverishment of black America. Ensuing insurrection the Inquirer newsroom; Question of for whom a newspaper is speaking for when it takes an editorial position; Possible solutions, including the abolition of editorials.

The article reports on how White House press corps reporter Helen Thomas was transformed from an institution to a muckracking crusader. In her new book,"Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Failed the Public," Thomas argues that reporters were once more critical of the president. The article argues that the press corps has never been anything more than a transcription service for the press secretary and that Thomas causes more harm than good with her tirades.

Focuses on several events related to politics in the U.S. and around the world. Restrictions on the freedom of journalists in Poland; Controversy on the nomination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan for the Screen Actors Guild's Award; Discussion of the shift of "Inquiry," the lively libertarian semi-monthly, from San Francisco to Washington; Comments on the political situation of the Democratic Party.

Focuses on the role of mass media in the United States, to foster the practice of politicians to deny their statements in public. Examination of the reference to the Chappaquiddick incident in political statements; Manipulation of the reporting of political statements by the press; Techniques used by reporters in media to use the device of denial affirmative.

Comments on how the press would sensationalize and fictionalize news stories in the U.S. by offering insufficient facts and data to support their news. News stories that were exaggerated on newspapers; Highly publicized anti-homosexual political campaign mounted by a right-wing fundamentalist group; Prevalence of lies and deceit in newspapers; Criticisms against journalists; Issue of journalistic ethics.

Discusses the findings of a survey of journalists entitled "The American Journalist in the 1990s," published by the Freedom Forum. Tendency of journalists to have liberal political views; Comments on the conservativeness of media owners and editorial pages; Accusation of media critics against the press; Discussion of political preference and journalists' ability to perform the function of journalism.

Focuses on issues concerning the royal family of Great Britain. View that it is difficulty for a U.S. citizen to realize the strident piety that was applied to the royal family in Great Britain; Hindsight of the royal family; Discourse on the history of involvement of the British press in the affairs of the royal family.

Presents information on the press coverage of events occurring in the state of Iowa. Release of a press kit by the Iowa Development Commission and the Office of the Governor containing story lines of interest to the people of the state; Consideration for the growth of the state economy and its relative prosperity compared to other states; Resolution on the Midwest farm crisis.

Focuses on the laws imposed on the press by the South African government which led to the print media's failure in delivering information to society. Enactment of laws that curtail individual freedom and right to free speech; Legislation aimed at preventing publishing information on the activities of the South African police and armed forces; Prohibition of the media from entering riot areas.

Focuses on the behavior of the U.S. news media during presidential inauguration activities. Factors that motivate the press; Examples of headlines that can be found in leading newspapers after the inauguration; Significance of inauguration activities to mass media.

Criticizes public relations firms in the U.S. led by Carma International for claiming that they can turn bad press into good. Views that contracts entered into by Carma with corporate and government clients represent the triumph of the spin doctors; Stories on activities of the U.S. Department of Energy that were covered by the press; Criticism against the notion that reporters can be summoned to some sort of re-education camp.

Presents updates on politics in West Africa as of January 19, 1963. Censorship of foreign correspondents in West Africa; Political rivalry between the North and South Nigerian population; Claim that the main problem facing the government will be the unemployed school dropouts from the villages; Views that Ghana's intelligentsia's discontent is expressed in radical pan-Africanism; Overview of contradictory topics reported by the press in Ghana.

This article focuses on the concept of news bias in U.S. press, with specific reference to political campaigning of 1956 and coverage of these campaigning by several journals. An editor who tries to maintain fairness to both parties by allotting more or less equal space to each party on any given day will generally overrate or underrate the importance of news stories. "News value" may not be precisely measurable but it exists. Several journals have been examined to find out the subordination of "news value" to mechanical "balancing." In news treatment, the editorial preference plays a vital role which ultimately affects public perception of a particular news.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics published in previous issues. Comments on the discipline of the U.S. Marine corps; "The Press in "56" in the September 24 issue; View that criticism of the press or of any other important portion of the operation of the American system is helpful; Claim that it is only through debate that an intelligent public opinion is developed.

Presents the author's comments on television programs. Airing of a show about animals or some how-to hour on gardening, by the educational channel; Report that National Broadcasting Co. Inc. can't persuade its 250 affiliates to air one hour of network news instead of the present half-hour; Pontification on the failures of the Press, by Hodding Carter.

Presents an overview of the press and journalism in the U.S. Reference to the book "Merry-Go-Round," by Drew Pearson and Bob Allen; View that the book deplores sweeping attacks on the press and states that Washington journalism on the whole is doing a good job in the most open news capital of the world; Statement that the worst fault of the American press today is not partisanship, but trivialization; Discussion of the problems faced by the press in future years; Report that U.S. President Herbert Hoover believed in weak government, low taxes, minimum federal regulation, and salvation by the free market; Information on the reduction of income in the higher brackets.

Provides some insights into the press coverage of the first flight of airplane inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright in Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Publication of the report on "The Virginia Plot"; Criticisms about the truthfulness of the coverage of the flight by the Wright brothers; Characteristics of American journalism; Indications of the history of aeronautics and journalism.

Focuses on the problem of the domination of the media by the Jews in the U.S. Impact of the death of the former President Richard Nixon on the Jewish domination; Support of Israel by the country; Reason behind the domination of the media by Jews; Statement that only Nixon could have solved the problem.

Offers insights into the press coverage of U.S. President George Bush's European trip following Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's highly successful visit to West Germany. Irritation of Bush's aides over the domination of question about the Soviet leader in the president's press conferences; Comparison of Bush's reception in Poland and Hungary with Gorbachev's in West Germany; Complaints of journalists covering the president overseas; Description of the speech given by Bush at the Karl Marx University; Observations on the First Lady.

Comments on the headline of the April 10, 1986 issue of the "New York Times" regarding Canadian politics. Invitation of reader comments on the headline.

Discusses the press coverage of the Jimmy carter's presidential campaign. Explanation of why he decided to attack President Gerald R. Ford; Information on blunders made by Carter in the press; Assertion by Carter that he is working on ways to remove the trappings of the imperial presidency; Reasons behind the negative press coverage of his campaign.

Focuses on the role of the press in two consecutive U.S. election. Comments on the drifting of the press into bias by negation; Comparison between the newspapers published on the first three days of a week in the two consecutive election campaigns; Discussion of the comparative quiet of the papers on the campaign several weeks ago.

This article presents information about an article published in the periodical "Life." Freedom of press, guaranteed by the First Amendment, is a grand and glorious thing, protecting the journalist against many vicissitudes, but it has its limits. Effective against courts and committees it may be, but nobody claims that it can shelter an able editor against the wrath of a woman and this limitation is a sufficient explanation of the remarkable case of the Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The article in the periodical "Life" that created the disturbance was friendly to Dulles, to some tastes effusively friendly. Its fault was that it did not protect Dulles against himself. Some statements, innocuous as spoken words, look like the devil in cold type.