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Les organes qui assurent les communications de masse peuvent‐ils maitriser les tendances totalitaires de la société de masse? L'auteur propose un modèle opérationnel pour l'analyse de cette question. Elle situe le noeud du problème comme étant la manifestation de change‐ments dans le rapport entre le journalisme politique et les institutions politiques. La nature de ce lien est cruciale pour que les organes de communication exercent leur fonction de critiques. D'autonome, ce rapport devient dépendant, à mesure que la société de classes devient une société de masse. De nouvelles formes de journalisme apparaissent, tels que le journalisme de prestige et le journalisme administratif, ce dernier devenant semblable au journalisme soviétique. C'est ainsi que le rôle de critique de l'organe de communication est mis en danger. Le fait pour les journalistes et pour d'autres groupes ayant des intéréts semblables de s'associer leur procurera peutêtre une mesure de protection.

US MM are probably the world's greatest, & in excellent health, more mature & more responsible today than 50 yrs ago. But they are not good enough because: (1) people do not believe what they read; (2) the media do not have enough or the right kind of information; (3) Ed's need more power; & (4) there are large gaps in knowledge of the impact that the media have on the audiences. Once these shortcomings have been remedied, the media can face the really difficult questions of the times: (A) To what extent has newsmen's reportage only of the dramatic distorted readers' concepts of reality? (B) To what extent has media's exploitation of violence made violence prevalent? (3) To what extent have media contributed to increase in promiscuity & the cheapening of sex? (D) To what extent have the media contributed to the popularity of extremism & the devil theory of internat'l relations? HA.

Alienation, defined as a rejection of soc instit's & processes, plays an important role in sociol'al res & theory. A measure of the degree of alienation is examined re MM exposure, interest in sensational content, & gratifications obtained from the media. 2 hyp's are suggested: (1) the alienated person will spend more time using the MM in order to compensate for a lack of satisfaction with more personal COMM; (2) within a given medium, the alienated person will select content that agrees with his image of a hostile & unpredictable world, such as news of accidents & violence & glamorous personages. He will be little interested in gov'al news or any content that depends on empathy with abstract instit's. These hyp's were tested in personal interviews with 180 adults from Madison, Wise. The interviewing method is explained & the results, presented in 4 tables, show little evidence of a positive r between alienation & time spent using the MM, & indicate that alienation is associated with lower interest in 'nonsensational' headlines, but the hypothesis of a positive association of alienation & interest in `sensational' headlines was not supported. The data also indicate that the more alienated the R, the less likely he was to think informational reasons applied to him, & the more likely was his acceptance of vicarious reasons as gratifications connected with his newspaper reading. Both alienation & educ were found to be clear, though not strong, predictors of gratifications attributed to reading newspapers. M. Maxfield.

United States mass media are probably the world's greatest, and in excellent health, more mature and more responsible today than fifty years ago. But they are not good enough because: (1) People do not believe what they read; (2) the media do not have enough or the right kind of information; (3) editors need more power; and (4) there are large gaps in knowledge of the impact that the media have on the audiences. Once these shortcomings have been remedied, the media can face the really difficult questions of the times: (1) To what extent has newsmen's reportage only of the dramatic distorted readers' concepts of reality? (2) To what extent has media's exploitation of violence made violence prevalent? (3) To what extent have media contributed to increase in promiscuity and the cheap ening of sex? (4) To what extent have the media contributed to the popularity of extremism and the devil theory of international relations?