Pertains to an agricultural cartoonist being fired by a farm periodical after an agri-marketer's withdrawal of advertising due to dissatisfaction with the content of a cartoon.
4 pages., Via online., "The chief ethical fear for the past 99 years of agricultural journalism has been that one of our number would cuddle up closer to advertisers than others of us, and reap unethical benefits of that. The chief charge of every Ethics Committee [of AAEA] has been to protect our collective readers from any hoodwinking that would come from such collusion. As I look toward that 100th year, I wonder who needs protecting from whom." Examines pressures on agricultural journalists in the wake of divided audience perspectives about the role of agricultural media in covering contentious political issues
Summary of remarks by a member of the board of ethics and professional standards for the Public Relations Society of America who spoke at a conference session of the AAEA.
