"Farmers' lack of market power is the real enemy, so farmers and ranchers must work together to gain bargaining power, because, without it, independent farmers have little hope of survival." Mentions issue of farm organizations, agricultural trade and commodity groups misrepresenting their interests to Congress and policy makers by posing as the family farmer.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C26955
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Online from V-Fluence web site via PR Reporter. 3 pages., "Words like 'frankenfoods' and 'genetic engineering' scare consumers and deny them the facts about agricultural biotechnology and food safety, the author writes."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25288
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Comments before the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Broadcast Localism, RM-10803. 2 pages., Author urged the Commission to seek ways to help maintain and encourage more localized agricultural programming on radio and television stations throughout the nation.
Online from publisher., Author observes how the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is losing sight of the traditional mission of maintaining public lands and passing them intact to the next generation. "The BLM's mission is not ideological and does no give preference to certain land users. Its legal mandate calls for managing public lands for a variety of uses, treating energy generation and conservation equally. But now, the agency is losing sight of that mission."
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.
Online via UI Library electronic subscription, To close the gap between ecologists and policy makers, the author proposed a program of embedding ecologists into the political syst4em in much the same way the U.S. military embeds journalists into combat units. Emphasized the importance of developing personal relationships.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36925
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Via SciDev.net. 2 pages., Director of the non-profit media organisation, TVE Asia Pacific, argues that "the media and development organizations are currently part of the problem."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29643
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3 pages., "In the place of our journalism becoming development journalism in the sense defined above, it has become 'envelope' journalism based on envelopes with press releases reaching newspaper offices."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23345
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From WireTap via the Omni Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology. 6 pages., Identifies 10 corporations as winners of the 2003 "Don't Be Fooled Awards." Includes three marketers of food products, tobacco products and forestry management concepts.
Perspectives on the role of an ethical public communicator in "this toxic political situation called the environmental debate." Author concludes that in this information environment "the real ethical issue lies with us - the informed citizenry. An ethical citizenry would be rhetorically savvy in order to make sound choices about their local economies and their global environment."
Via online. 1 page., Author notes how some journalists are now given the freedom to produce stories with the angles they prefer rather than provide objective and balanced reporting.
