Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03073
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Greg Wells, editor of The Times Journal, Russell Springs, Kentucky, describes his experience at the occasion of reports of scandalous behavior by Miss USA Tara Conner, a hometown resident. Via the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Unviersity of Kentucky, Lexington. 3 pages.
Via LexisNexis Academic, Africa News. 2 pages., Author describes being insulted and possibly threatened by an agricultural company that disagreed with an article published.
Center for Media and Democracy, Madison, Wisconsin
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2006-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: C28104
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Via PR Watch.Org. 1 page., Examines merging of two food industry websites - Best Food Nation and Grow America Project - into that of the Center for Food Integrity.
Farsetta, Diane (author) and Center for Media and Democracy, Madison, Wisconsin
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2006-01-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: C28105
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www.freepress.net via PR Watch.Org. 5 pages., Cites success of voters in Switzerland and some U.S. communities for passing resolutions opposing the unregulated use of genetically modified organisms or placing a moratorium on the commercial release or cultivation of GMOs.
Posted at http://www.southeastfarmpress.com, Via online issue. 1 page., Intern at this farm journal writes about his discovery that ag sources of information are understanding.
Marshall, Jon (author) and Society of Professional Journalists, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2006-09-27
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28527
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Posted at http://www.spj.org, Author's blog and online newspaper site. 15 pages., Features a series,"Eating local," in the Anchorage Daily News. Husband-wife reporting team describes and shows experiences during a week of trying to eat only locally grown and raised food. The series, published during September 2006, was cited among "Jon Marshall's 'News Gems" highlighting the best of American journalism." URL for the series: http://www.adn.com/life/eating_local
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23635
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CBC News via AgBioView via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Questions accuracy of results of a recent research report by a Russian brain researcher indicating that genetically modified feed caused death of animals.
Via SignOnSanDiego.com. 2 pages., Author comments on science fraud in the academic, industrial and government sectors. Suggests that the latter two are the more serious.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23813
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E-Media Tidbits via Poynteronline. 1 page, Cites a rural newspaper editor who suggests: "As small papers concentrate their energy from print to digital, I think we are cutting off our collective noses to spite the face of community journalism - and not fighting for the attention of readers."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C24073
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From Meatingplace.com via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Author suggests that the meat industry can learn lessons in marketing communication from the cotton industry.
Retrieved June 28, 2006, Cautions about this term. "Behind the attractive epithet of 'participation' usually lurks the all-too-familiar patterns of dominance and control shaped by the mantras of 'modern' and 'progressive'."
