Pretrial Publicity: A Field Study

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1973, Pages 17-23

  Riley, Sam G ^a  

^a University's School of Communications and Theater ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84973679755     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: 2161430x     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769907305000103     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. For background on the free press-fair trial problem, consult Donald M. Gillmor, Free Press and Fair Trial (Washington, D.C., 1966).
2. Robert C. and Theodore C. Sorenson, “The Admissibility And Use of Opinion Research Evidence,” New York University Law Review, 28 (November, 1953) p. 1258.
3. Walter Wilcox, “The Press, the Jury and the Behavioral Sciences,” Journalism Monographs, ix (October 1968).
4. Maxwell E. McCombs, “Behavioral Research on Pre-Trial Publicity,” School of Journalism, University of North Carolina, 1969. (Mimeographed.)
5. Examples are Joseph T. Klapper and Charles Y. Glock, ‘Trial By Newspaper,” Scientific American, February 1949, pp. 16-21
6. John B. Adams and John H. Jennrich, “Pre-Trial Reporting in North Carolina Dailies,” unpublished report, School of Journalism, University of North Carolina, 1965.
7. Examples of past studies are F. Gerald Kline and Paul H. Jess, “Prejudicial Publicity: Its Effects on Law School Mock Juries,” JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, 43:113-16 (Spring 1966)
8. Rita James Simon, “Murder, Juries and the Press,” Trans-Action, May-June 1966, pp. 40-2.
9. The latter article may also be found in Rita J. Simon, ed., The Sociology of Law (San Francisco, 1968), pp. 617-27.
10. Mary Dee Tans and Steven H. Chaffee, “Pretrial Publicity and Juror Prejudice,” JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, 43:647-54 (Winter 1966).
11. Reported by Maxwell McCombs, “Research Study Probes Trial by Newspaper,’ “ The Iowa Publisher, November 1966, pp. 6-7, 14.
12. Some exploration of this question may be found in the Earl Howitt, The Strange Case of Alger Hiss (New York, 1953), pp. 195-8, and in Gillmor, Free Press-Fair Trial, p. 168.