ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the way one of the "gate keepers" in the complex channels of communication operates Kurt lewin’s "gate." Length of a story is another factor in a selection. In his last article, before his untimely death, Dr. Lewin pointed out that the travelling of a news item through certain communication channels was dependent on the fact that certain areas within the channels functioned as "gates". Gate keeper has charge of the selection of national and international news which will appear on the front and "jump" pages of his newspaper, and usually he makes up these pages. Political news enjoyed the largest play. In almost every case where one news agency supplied a story filled with figures and statistics and the competing agency's story was an easier going, more interpretative than statistical type of story, appeared in the paper. Economic news is informative for some readers and over the heads of others.
