Report of a Survey of News Preferences Among Catholic Diocesan Editors in the United States

It is often asserted that one particular Catholic newspaper is good , that another is bad and that a third is ridiculous. In most cases, the standard of judgment is political, i.e., how the paper stands on current issues facing the church. Rarely does the criticism consider the diocesan paper as a medium of information, principally because the information function has remained largely undefined. It is hoped that the data presented here will prove helpful toward such a definition