A Study of the Effectiveness of the Fleet Home Town News Center Releases in the Missouri Media.

Abstract

Each military service has a public affairs operation whose mission is to conduct programs designed to keep the public informed, within the limitations of accuracy, propriety and policy, on the actions of DoD Department of Defense and the Armed Forces. Part of the operation is performed by the two military home town news centers. The mission of these centers is to prepare releases for home town civilian media on individuals in the military services. This thesis will examine the way some civilian media use the releases. It will look at who uses the releases; whether a particular type of release is used more than another; how much editing is required; and whether the civilian journalists consider accuracy to be a problem with the releases. The study will also include some suggestions from civilian media as to the methods of improving the releases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA150507

Entities

People

  • J. P. Smallwood

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Coast Guard
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Relations
  • Radio Stations
  • Second World War
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States

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