Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1946 — Page 14

Journalism Students’ Poll Reveals Fallacy.

By Soripps-Howard Newspapers do you read in your newspaper? ‘ Mostly crime and scandal, the average reader seems to think. But

he's mistaken. University of Pittsburgh journal{sm students asked 265 readers this question: \ “How much of your daily paper is devoted to sports news; fo comics, and to crime and scandal news?” © The readers thought they saw seven times more crime and scandal -news than there actually was and more than twice the actual amount of comics and sports. Their figures were 9.3 per cent for sports, 9.25 per cent for comics and a lusty 19.25 per cent for crime and scandal. Women Overrate Crime The students then made an analysis of 24 editions of Pitts-

« burgh's daily papers. They found that they contained 45 per cent sports, 3.75 per cent comics and 2.75 per cent crime and

. scandal, The tendency to see seven murders for every one that appears in print was even more marked in women. They credited crime and scandal with occupying 208 per cent of the paper. i Men, on the other hand, tended to over-estimate sports, voting it - ‘9.8 per cent of the space. Closer on Comics On comics the sexes were closer together, with men guessing 9.8 per| gent and the women 9 per. cent. Age groups apparently had little influence on the interpretations of news contents. Summing the survey, Robert X. Graham, Pitt journalism teacher, said: “We make no claim that we've proved anything except that readers are not quite so observant as they think they are: “But . .. the survey ought to explode a view, held by some, that the daily newspaper is uncommonly

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crime and scandal. Crime news is a matter of news interest and news value rather than of moral turpi- * tude on the part of editors.”

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