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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973

A content analysis of news item & editorial coverage of the 'Trenton Six Case' by Negro, Communist, & general circulation newspapers in the US. The case involved a murder (1948), the implication of six Negroes, & a 5-yr series of legal proceedings concluded by acquittal & (for one of the men) a light sentence. The purpose of the content analysis was to learn how the paper's identity, pol'al commitment, & geographical proximity to the case affected its coverage. The 8 analyzed papers fell into 4 regional-ethnic groups: eastern Negro, western Negro, eastern non-ethnic, & western non-ethnic; & were further sub-divided on the basis of their pol'al affiliation. The major units of analysis were number of articles per time period, number of column inches, & f of occurence of 3 types of themes: 'racial discrimination,' 'denial of civil rights,' & 'subversive contamination.' Results indicated that in the Negro press pol'al orientation & geographical location were secondary to racial interest as factors determining type & amount of coverage but that an 'all or none policy' appeared since 2 Negro papers in California did not report the case, whereas a 3rd reported it fully. As to the non-ethnic press, pol'al interest was decisive since the Communist papers gave the case a heavy & qualitatively diff type of coverage. Of the 5 papers in the sample the theme of 'subversive contamination' appeared only in The New York Times. K. Geiger.