This investigation examined the criteria and factors involved in selecting and writing news for Jordan Television's main Arabic News Program during a 13-week period. The data were primarily collected through participant observation of the news operations and by soliciting the reasons for the news decisions of all the subjects involved in the news selection process. In-depth interviews, review of relevant documents, and content analysis of the actual news output during 1 week were additional techniques used. / The results indicate that the major dimensions of the applied news selection criteria emanated from government policy considerations which mainly revolved around concerns relevant to the country's security, stability and so-called interest and which were characterized by the following news gatekeeping practices: (a) preserving Jordan's friendships and relations with other countries, (b) giving top priority coverage to the locally originated official news, (c) emphasizing only the news that legitimized and strengthened the government's announced positions toward the central Arab and regional political problems, and (d) censorship of any news considered as incompatible with such policies. / The results also indicate that supplementary dimensions of the applied news criteria emanated from the gatekeepers' desire to make the news program more appealing by selecting stories, primarily about international events for which films were available and which were not expected to trigger negative official feedback, mainly concerning the superpowers' affairs, nuclear issues, disasters, science, sports and light items. / In sum, the study revealed that the government's influences, policies, censorship and interference in the selection and assignments of news progressively offset the gatekeepers' professional news preferences and outlook in carrying out their news gatekeeping and offset the audience count or interest in JTV's news practices. / Other factors found to significantly influence the news selection and output were the lack of serious attempts by, and the limited possibilities for, JTV's news staff to seek out the news on their own, coupled with the availability of news from outside sources and the heavy reliance by JTV news on those sources, in addition to the need to fill the available space and time in the news program. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-07, Section: A, page: 1610. / Major Professor: Richard R. Lee. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.

This study combined the uses and gratifications approach with the Theory of Reasoned Action, an especially important combination because the study dealt with a non-Western culture. The results provide strong support for the two methods used in combination. / The study sample were 317 randomly selected participants from the faculties of King Saud University and Imam Bin Saud Islamic University, both in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. / The study tested five hypotheses for Saudi television and five for Saudi newspapers. A model to illustrate the relationship between predictor and predicted variables was proposed. All hypotheses regarding Saudi television and newspapers were statistically supported. / The analysis of the proposed model reveals both direct and indirect relationships. In the case of television and newspapers, beliefs x evaluations and normative beliefs x motivations to comply were antecedent variables to the gratifications sought and media usage relationship. In both television and newspapers, media usage appears not to be an intervening variable between gratifications sought and gratifications obtained. This may suggest a third variable--habitual behavior or lifestyle behavior. A direct relationship was found between gratifications obtained and both beliefs x evaluations and normative beliefs x motivation to comply. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-04, Section: A, page: 1034. / Major Professor: Gary R. Heald. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 19-04, page: 0328. / Thesis (M.S.)--The Florida State University, 1980.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 32-12, Section: A, page: 7022. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1971.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 37-01, Section: A, page: 0017. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1975.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 38-08, Section: A, page: 4434. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1977.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 38-05, Section: A, page: 2396. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1977.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 37-01, Section: A, page: 0015. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1975.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 38-09, Section: A, page: 5108. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1977.

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