In October 1977, just weeks after Anastasio Somoza lifted a nearly three year state of siege, Nicaragua's Sandinista guerrillas resumed their military offensive by launching a countrywide assault against the dictator. Some 22 months later, on July 17, . . .

The thesis utilized the method of qualitative content analysis to analyze the press coverage of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the space industry from 1990 through 1999. Research data came from three weekly news magazines: Ti . . .

The ubiquitous "energy crisis," brought to the public's attention by the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74, thrusted southern California’s two largest energy utilities unwillingly, and unexpectedly, into the media limelight. For the first time in their more . . .

Because our society has become so significantly television oriented, and beceuse programs of technical excellence sponsored by stations or organizations with considerable financial resources are common everyday presentations, and because television is . . .

"A Portrait of a Middle-Aged Man" provides a cross-sectional analysis of a typical man in throes of a mid-life crisis. Seen in three different settings which reveal the conflicts arising out of employment, family and social encounters, the protagonist . . .

Quantitative content analysis was used to examine coverage of women in a weekly Marxist-Leninist newspaper. A stratified random sample of stories on all topics in three issues from each year of the study was analyzed for variables dealing with both me . . .

This thesis explores the effects of racial change on audience perception of violent scenes designed to be shown on television. Ninety-eight subjects were obtained, voluntarily, from the campus of California State University, Northridge. Forty-eight we . . .

The John Reed Club was a group of politically radical writers, artists, and journalists, who aligned themselves with the struggles of the working-class and militant left during the early Depression years (1929-1935). The Clubs were in the forefront of . . .

During the last decade, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries caused the largest transfer of wealth in history by taking control of the pricing and production of its vast oil resources away from Western nations. This thesis is a qualit . . .

The thesis applies Marxist economic precepts to the function of the newspaper industry, thereby explaining the industry's economic growth and daily operation. Topics from employment to chain ownership are considered and analyzed in terms of their role . . .

The Iranian hostage crisis, some have claimed, attracted more media attention than any international diplomatic incident in recent history. In turn, that large amount of coverage attracted considerable and severe criticism from several sources, most n . . .

This is the story of life in the Watts ghetto as told from "inside" - by the people who live there. It is an attempt to explain a culture and life-style which is alien to the majority of Americans. It is written in the "new journalism" style of report . . .

This project uses 1000 college students in an experimental study to test the theory that listening skills can be improved by the use of specific listening training materials. Four hypotheses were postulated: #1 - Concentrated listening training using . . .

This study examined how the U.S. mainstream press and the Black Press portrayed former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from 1991-2011. Using narrative analysis, this study found that the mainstream press primarily depicted him as a savior of . . .

This thesis project examines the role of media in American democracy by looking at how third-party candidates are marginalized in news coverage. It is a documentary film about media coverage of third-party political candidates. It follows Luis J. Rodr . . .

After television, the national newsmagazines are the most widespread source of news for the nation. Both Time and Newsweek have circulations in the millions. These two major newsmagazines are also looked to as a news source by other reporters and are . . .

The purpose of this thesis was to identify and describe those women who received professional and/or public recognition as American journalists from 1696 to 1972. The focus was on reporters, editors and publishers (excluding for the most part columnis . . .

This thesis, a descriptive history, examined the life and career of Adela Rogers St. Johns, while focusing on the characteristics of her writing style. The hypothesis was that she wrote as an emotional sob sister throughout her newspaper years. St. Jo . . .

The Christian church has been using the specialized media form of public service advertising for almost two decades. This thesis explored and described the subject content of public service announcements (PSAs) produced by twelve Christian groups inte . . .

In 1972, the editors of Ms. magazine broke many of the ground rules for starting a national women’s magazine. Their staff was composed entirely of women; they rejected sexist advertising; they reserved a percentage of their profits for an educational . . .

The long political career of Richard M. Nixon has been analyzed many times, including his 1950 contest against Helen Gahagan Douglas for the United States Senate seat from California. Most of the literature about that campaign has dealt with Nixon and . . .

This study examines how the political elite shape the news coverage of the media by analyzing the two newspapers, the Daily Express and The Guardian’s, coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster – a disaster which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool FC . . .

On July 1, 1974, what has been termed by some as an innovative form of postsecondary education metamorphosed from concept to reality in the Pacific coastal city of Ventura. It was the University of California and the California State University and Co . . .

In 1973 editorship of one of the major underground newspapers, the Los Angeles Free Press, changed for the first time since its founding in 1964. The original editor and publisher, Art Kunkin, was fired in August of that year, and former Free Press ci . . .

There has been an attempt to increase the motion picture business in Thailand in the last decade. However, the Thai film industry has been slow in keeping up with the motion picture industries in other parts of the world. The number of theaters, for e . . .

Local television stations are licensed to use the public airwaves by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In exchange for the commercial license they must produce public service programs, which are intended to inform the community on ascertain . . .

The research of this thesis analyzes social media coverage by the teen and female-oriented publication, Teen Vogue. It specifically looks at the coverage of two events in June 2018: LGBTQ pride and the midterm elections. The core of the research is pr . . .

American coverage of foreign news generally focuses on dramatic happenings and events, and, on political and economic activities. It too often ignores reporting on the lives and living situations of peoples around the world. Expanding the base of subj . . .

This study investigated the news coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake in the conservative media and mainstream media from January 12, 2010 to February 26, 2010. Through narrative analysis it was discovered that the conservative and mainstream news ou . . .

Credibility in America suffered a series of devastating setbacks in the mid-1960's and early 1970's. There were many causes and they varied from the Vietnam War to misleading advertising, but they all hinged on the manner in which information was bein . . .

The phenomenon of the growth of Southern California's San Fernando Valley has been reflected for sixty-four years in the area's largest local newspaper, the Valley News and Green Sheet. The News is circulated in an area of over 320 square miles, to mo . . .

In September 1970, King Hussein of Jordan decided to put an end to the state-within-a-state situation through strong military operations that ended in the expulsion of the military forces of the Palestinian Liberation Organization from Jordan. This si . . .

This study presents a description and analysis of Mexican emigration and deportation reporting in The Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles' Spanish-language daily, La Opinion. The 1930's, 1950's and 1970's have been selected as the periods of study becau . . .

The number of family run farms has been declining through the 1980s. Although the numbers of farmers as a percentage of the United States population is small. they hold a special place in our national consciousness as evidenced by media coverage of th . . .

Eleanor Roosevelt communicated with the American public more effectively than any other First Lady. Through her activities, lectures and writing, she advocated her causes, aired her views, and displayed the humanitarian qualities that made her a promi . . .

This documentary is a personal account of my own journey from a nationally ranked pitcher, forced off my American college team to being a part of a sports club in Switzerland. It is common in the United States for athletes at the college level to lose . . .

In the genre of science-fiction films, a popular theme predicts that in the future our lives will be shaped and controlled by machines and we, in fact, will emulate these revered mechanical masters and become soulless, unfeeling automatons, losing our . . .

Filipinos comprise the third largest ethnic group in the City of Los Angeles, following Latinos and African Americans. Despite L.A.'s sizeable Filipino community, however, there is a noticeable lack of news coverage catering specifically to Filipino A . . .

This thesis traces the development of the auteur theory of film. Beginning in France, this concept's genesis from an article by Francois Truffaut is discussed and evaluated. The evolution of Truffant’s phrase “la politique des auteurs” into a consciou . . .

A descriptive analysis via a five part research design yields qualitative and quantitative data on the popular Saturday morning children's program, "Smurfs." The study is undertaken to gain a better understanding of the elements that draw children to . . .

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the dependent variable attitude and the following independent variables: (1) factual knowledge of CAI; (2) level in educational field, i.e., elementary-secondary; (3) position held ln e . . .

The documentary film has taken a right place as a legitimate form of historical work. One long-practiced form of documentary film is that in which the primary materials used are already-existing film and photographic stills. Compiled, re-filmed and ed . . .

This thesis is an oral history of Dorothy Buffum Chandler, one of the most important and influential women to emerge in the first 200 years of Los Angeles history. This study has attempted to clarify Dorothy Chandler's role and influence at the Los An . . .

The case of the Jamal Khashoggi disappearance brought international uproar when it was revealed that Khashoggi was assassinated within the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey. Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya news networks were quick to pick up the story to co . . .

This thesis was undertaken to analyze print media performance on coverage of radioactive waste disposal into the ocean from January 1, 1983 through December 31, 1984. Five newspapers were chosen for study. They were the Christian Science Monitor, the . . .

This project is an exploration of the use of video tape for learning, teaching and researching journalism history projects as an alternative to traditional term papers. The concept for this project is to provide a living link to the recent past of jou . . .

This study investigates how five metro dailies reported on Action for Children’s television (ACT), a citizen activist group working to reform children’s television, from 1972 to 1978. Those were critical years when the national network upgraded childr . . .

The purpose of this study was to examine policies, practices and performance of full-service, CPB-qualified noncommercial educational radio stations in California regarding their usage of public service announcements (PSAs). There were two primary met . . .

On April 6, 1978, President Jimmy Carter decided not to build the neutron bomb. This move shocked even his closest advisors, coming after 10 months of efforts by Administration officials to convince the Unites States’ NATO allies to support the weapon . . .