Date of Award

8-1-1972

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Special Education and Communication Disorders

First Advisor

Dr. John K. Brilhart

Abstract

The production of news and editorial comment is considered by many to be American television's finest contribution to the viewing public. This seems to be corroborated by the steady increase of viewer reliance on television as a major source of news and comment since 1959.1 In more recent polls (Broadcasting, 1971, p. 24), the people naming television as their primary source of information rose to 60 percent, while those naming newspapers dropped to 48 percent.

Comments

A Thesis Presented to the Department of Speech and the Faculty of the Graduate College University of Nebraska at Omaha In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts. Copyright 1972 Louis Timmerman Bowring.

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