A report showing how news broadcasts are affected by the value judgement of individual reporters and editors, their stations and news agencies. It discusses priorities in news-making, different sources, how detailed the coverage should be, how it should be delivered and many other characteristics and elements of news. There is a brief discussion of the quality of international news coverage. There is appended a copy of the Code of Broadcast News Ethics adopted by the Radio Television News Directors Association of Canada in September 1970.--p. 50 Bibliography of CRTC studies.