Foreign Countries: *Imperialism: Information

A study vas undertaken to exanine the sources of intefiational.nevs in the Pacific Island press in the light of J. Oaltungss struCtural theory of imperialism and to explore the relationship between the remoteness and isolation of the Pacific press and its sources of news. The Oaltuagian concepts of.center-periphery and dOsinance-dependency were related to sources and conditions of remoteness. A content analysis of 32 nevspapers vas conducted--20 from the Pacific Islands and 12 from the Pacific Rim countries of North America and Asia. Eleven coding categories were used and the space of each item vas eeasured, a beadline/sunmary vas recorded, and advertising and "nevshole " sere measured. In all, 4,710 elinternational news iteas were coded from 162 issues Of the newspapers. The resulting data were consistent with the Caltungisn' construct that the flow of news will be from ihe center to the periphery and that the center countries,,partLaularly those wit