Content analysis was employed in an examination of nine major metropolitan daily newspapers to determine how they portrayed both black and white members of the United States House of Representatives from l979 to l983. Specifically, the study examined the amount of coverage given to a sample of 16 black and 16 white representatives, the way articles about these members were displayed in the papers, how the personal and political attributes of each were reported, and how often they were quoted on a broad range of topics. Relationships were then determined between the portrayal variables and race and which race received favorable or unfavorable treatment. Overall, the analysis revealed that the newspapers studied reported on black and white representatives in a nondiscriminatory fashion in the majority of portrayal dimensions measured. Significant variance associated with race was found, however, in press portrayal of black and white representatives in the areas of amount of coverage, placement of names, several areas of political leadership qualities, and frequency of quotation. (Author/FL)