SF story where communications/news is presented in triplicate - three different levels of comprehension

Question

Thinking written late 20th century, say 1970s-2000. Not a short-short, but not sure if novel length. Pretty sure populated by (future) earth-human types.

As best recall any (official?) communications were presented in three ways. In order of decreasing complexity, like so:

1. academic/scientific journal level, newspaper level, and perhaps as a comic-strip or other graphic illustration or maybe something like
2. professional level, man-on-the-street level, and non-reader level (video?), or
3. some combination of 1 and 2

Don't recall any plot and so don't think it was integral to that story, but rather an aspect of the society (and/or not-so-subtle social commentary that the author thought was "cool"...).

Answer 1

I think this is probably John Varley's The Ophiuchi Hotline

Various interstitial material is presented to fill in the background of the novel, and each item is given a "read rating".

The novel in fact starts out this way, with

(Class I read-rating)

The file was started on Lilo when CCR computers noticed she had been dealing with Ophiuchi Hotline data tagged by analysis as probably related to human DNA...

(Class II read-rating)

Crimcon G-cops will tell you "Lilo was tough. Crafty...."

(Illiterate read-rating)

Photocomics and holotapes attached.