Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Lenin cast the model for the Soviet system and Stalin held to it rigidly, while Khrushchev elevated the press to a higher position. Under all three men, however, the fundamental flaw of state control remained.

In this study of the editorial endorsements of 11 California newspapers, comparisons with voting results show the influence of the endorsements, particularly at local levels and on lengthy ballots.

Children's newspaper reading reflects parental values, as well as static factors like social class. This study suggests a new set of explanatory variables for studying changes in children's media behavior.

Attacked by dictators from both right and left, IAPA has emerged as a professional organization with a program that goes beyond its defense of press freedom. Some journalists credit it with saving their lives.

Algorithmic analysis of item readership data shows editors how maximum audience reach may be attained with a minimum of items, thus freeing them to do a more creative and constructive editing job.

What kind of stereotyped image of each of three presidents—Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy—has been presented by Time? The author investigates the techniques used by the magazine to subjectivize its news.

The data partially support the hypothesis of greater attitude change for close-minded persons in situations involving cognitive inconsistency. But research on other factors in the attitude change process is indicated as necessary.

Some 200 persons labored in September 1938 to bring radio news to America of Europe's war crisis. Led by Kaltenborn, Murrow, Shirer and Jordan, they penetrated American minds and made broadcasting history.

Censorship during the 1898 war against Spain was more extensive and effective than historians have been inclined to grant. But the press was incautious in reporting troop and ship movements.

The contest is readily recognizable as a recurrent theme in the sociology of knowledge: it is David versus Goliath; the pink-cheeked country lad against the city slicker; it is reason and common sense in opposition to sophism and scholasticism in their contemporary guise. (Shubert, 1950, p. 550)

By passing news about Japan through a historical “filter” that is charged with emotion, Korean newspapers make it more difficult for relations between the two countries to be normalized.

Despite small circulations, the English-language newspapers in foreign countries utilize a wide variety of news sources. They rely chiefly upon major news agencies, but many have special correspondents.

Few Albanians had ever heard of Karl Marx when Communists seized power, but their press is now the most completely regimented in Europe. Exiled groups and guerillas are still hoping for deliverance.

This department is devoted to shorter reports on research in the communications field. Readers are invited to submit summaries of investigative studies interesting for content, method or implications for further research.

This department is a forum for AEJ members, who are invited to submit succinct articles dealing with educational trends, fields of study, laboratory techniques and student problems in Journalism and mass communications.