Books received

THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS VS. PUBLIC ACCESS. By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. New York: Praeger, 1976. 296 pp. $17.50 &; $6.95.

THE GOOD GUYS, THE BAD GUYS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT: FREE SPEECH VS. FAIRNESS IN BROADCASTING. By Fred W. Friendly. New York: Random House, 1976. 268 pp. $10.00.

TUBE OF PLENTY: THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN TELEVISION. By Erik Barnouw. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. 518 pp. $14.95.

CLIVE: INSIDE THE RECORD BUSINESS. By Clive Davis with James Willwerth. New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. 346 pp. $1.95 (paper).

CONTROL OF THE DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITE: VALUES IN CONFLICT. By The Aspen Institute. Palo Alto, CA.: Aspen Institute, 1974. 156 pp. $3.00 (paper).

GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE POLICY: INTELSAT, POLITICS AND FUNCTIONALISM. By Joseph N. Pelton. Mt. Airy, MD.: Lomond Books, 1974. 183 pp. $14.50.

REGULATION AND CONTROL OF DIRECT BROADCASTING FROM SATELLITES: THE UN INVOLVEMENT. By Benno Signitzer. New York: Praeger, 1976. 112 pp. $12.50.

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ISSUES OF THE FIRST DECADE OF INTELSAT. By Marcellus S. Snow. New York: Praeger, 1976. 170 pp. $16.50.     

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This study examined issue learning outcomes in three intra‐party political debates during the 1984 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. The results indicated that intra‐party political debates produce significant viewer learning (1) about the issue positions of each participating candidate, (2) about most issues, and (3) among all categories of viewers. In addition, the study found that intra‐party political debates produce distinct outcomes, including: variation in learning between debates about candidate positions on particular issues; significant increases in learning about the positions of the Democratic candidates on the part of Democratic, Republican, and nonaffiliated viewers; and a negative effect on viewer knowledge about nonparticipating incumbent Ronald Reagan's positions on the issues.     

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This is the third installment in a continuing series of foreign area bibliographies edited by Dr. John Lent of Temple University's School of Communications and Theater. The first, on Asian media information sources, appeared in 19:321-340 (Summer 1975), and the second, on Caribbean mass communications in 20:111-125 (Winter 1976). The compiler of the present installment is a member of Temple University's radio-TV-film faculty and is author/editor of Broadcasting in Africa (1974) and Broadcasting in America (1976). In 1976-77 he will undertake teaching duties in Ghana on a Fulbright fellowship.     

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In this study, children were shown one of three violent TV clips. Each clip showed an identical act of aggression but the perpetrator's motivation and punishment for the violent act were manipulated. Children also filled out a questionnaire that asked about their family communication patterns (FCP). Overall, children who rated higher on the communication dimension were more likely to see motivated violence as more justified, whereas children who rated higher on the control dimension were likely to see punished violence as less justified. In addition, children who were more control‐oriented and who had perceived the violent clip as justified chose aggressive story endings significantly more frequently than other children.