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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24469
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Meatingplace.com via Food Safety Network. 3 pages., Commends efforts in the poultry industry to emphasize "substance" rather than the "sizzle" that often characterizes high-profile marketing campaigns these days.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: C24782
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Meatingplace.com via Food Safety Network, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 2 pages., Calls for efforts to educate the media and public about the how and why of reproductive cloning.
Solomon, Norman (author) and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2006-05-16
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24433
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Retrieved July 7, 2006, Media Beat. 2 pages., Author discusses the limitations of journalistic work related to hunger throughout the world. "Journlism can't answer those questions. But journalism should ask them."
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.
Retrieved June 28, 2006, Cautions about this term. "The concept of IPRs is tied to a neo-liberal worldview that says that everything in the world - material goods, creative works, even DNA - can and should be privatised."
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24452
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Retrieved June 28, 2006, at http://www.grain.org/jargon/?id=7&docu=%252Fseedling%252Findex%252Ecfm%3Fid%3D196%2b, 2 pages., Expresses concern that the concept of traditional knowledge is being diminished as "fixed, mummified, and unfit for modern times." "What is really being done is crushing or violating the right of many peoples of the world to continue freely creating, promoting, protection, exchanging and enjoying knowledge."
Southeastern Newspapers Corporation via LexisNexis Academic. 2 pages., Author comments about pressures on tv meteorologists to avoid discussing global warming, a topic that he believes may jeopardize advertising revenues from corporate advertisers.
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."
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.
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'."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25051
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From www.American.com via FoodSafetyNetwork. 2 pages., Criticizes the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology for a pervasive pro-regulation bias, ignoring essential context and promoting the impression of genuine controversy where none exists.