Writer criticizes current language use and reports that he tosses flags and assigns penalties (per football) when he sees and hears misuse of language while watching television.
Via online. 3 pages., Subtitle: A recent 8,000-word article in the New Yorker reaffirmed a trend in journalism of turning important scientific issues into a circus sideshow.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05923
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Online via www.wired.com. 8 pages., Controversial proposal from John Deere to the Copyright Office suggesting that due to computer codes in modern farm tractors farmers receive "an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06588
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Unpublished notes of responses during an interview/video session with Fawn Kurtzo, graduate student at the University of Arkansas, July 14, 2015. 4 pages.
