News Broadcasting on Soviet Radio and Television

摘要

The paper specifically deals with news broadcasting on Soviet radio and television. It begins by discussing the Soviet conception of the functional role of broadcasting media and news. It emphasizes of what extreme importance is the position which news broadcasting occupies in the process of informing the individual Soviet citizen. This leads into a study of radio news broadcasting. The first part of this section deals with the mechanics of news broadcasting in the Soviet Union. The reader learns about schedules, planning, the newsgathering apparatus, and party influence. In the next section it turns to a study of the content of the news broadcasts; into their characteristics, forms, and the different types of news. After this it discusses television news broadcasting; on times of broadcasts, forms of news broadcasts on television, and the preparation of news for television.