Author examines several ethical issues identified in an analysis and public reporting of conversation involving an environmental blogger and a coal industry executive. Examination involved ethical standards of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Public Relations Society of America.
"The current situation in the EU can be summarized by the paradoxical conclusion that GMO is safe to eat, but only when produced outside the Member States."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22474
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1918 to July 1, 1918, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 2, University of Illinois Archives., Agricultural Publishers Association Archives. 2 pages., Appeals to farm readers to oppose a postal rider to the revenue bill which would increase the cost of carrying second class mail material.
White, Frank B. (author / Managing Director, Agricultural Publishers Association) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
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Commentary
Publication Date:
1918
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24824
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2 pages., Author argues that pending postage increases for farm periodicals will result in less educational opportunity for farmers. "In nine families out of ten, it is practically the only source of extended education which they have."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C35790
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"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 1 page., Examines the conflict between pressures for profitability and reduced quality standards - and the ability to create, imagine and innovate. Author urges agricultural journalists to "look far beyond the immediate and you will discover the world still needs and wants people with such gifts."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21941
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Meatingplace.com. Cited in Fsnet, Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Includes discussion of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman's style of media relations and risk communicating, especially in connection with the "mad cow" matters during her tenure.
Farsetta, Diane (author) and Center for Media and Democracy, Madison, Wisconsin.
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Commentary
Publication Date:
2005-06-24
Published:
USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25080
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Retrieved December 7, 2006, Author's blog via Center for Media and Democracy. 8 pages., Sample concerns about video news releases, included reference to those produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding a controversial trade agreement proposal.
USA: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10572
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5 pages., via website, FAIR., Author revisits an earlier concern about the performance of a newspaper food columnist who recently admitted taking money from agribusiness interest groups that she covers.
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: 187 Document Number: D01123
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"This Week in Ag," via Google+. 2 pages., More than 15,000 digital agriculture related news and information articles about selected topics (beef, corn, dairy, poultry, soybean and swine) were generated worldwide in 14 months. These don't count news and stories from other channels (print, radio, video, conferences).
Case study involving public relations practitioners who disguised the provenance of documents they had created or commissioned involving the "Wal-Marting Across America" information campaign.
Via online issue. 4 pages., "Wife, mother, journalist. Yes, all of these three titles are correct. But break me own and, like a stick of rock, the very core of me would be stamped 'farmer's daughter'."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28850
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Via Agriculture Online. 2 pages., Author examines topics of interest identified by women who have taken part in a Successful Farming magazine survey, as well as Agriculture Online's "Women in Agriculture Forum."
Author suggests the role of agricultural editors is not to speak to consumers about the importance of agriculture, but to speak to producers about the importance of consumers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 47 Document Number: D10715
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Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004 are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, 2 pages., Author's thoughts as editorial director of Farm Journal magazine.
Online from periodical. 3 pages., Author described the responsibilities and importance of the produce manager/specialist. "These hardworking individuals live in two worlds; they have one foot in the stores and one foot in the corporate office." Emphasized the need for communications leadership among the teams with whom they work.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29275
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Via Nieman Watchdog. 5 pages., The Congressional stimulus packages "could mark a new, promising beginning - or they could be a new boondoggle for AT&T, Verizon and rural phone companies."
" Who can lament the passing of perpetual risk and fear, anyway? But probably we have lost something profound if corporate culture, like corporate farming, has eroded our lively old democratic pleasure in storytelling."
Online from periodical., Article briefly describes research indicating the windows of opportunity for encouraging babies to eat and like fruits and vegetables.
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.
Retrieved January 9, 2007, Via Boston.com, Commentator criticizes television weather reporters for failing to help viewers address the complications and implications of global warming.
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.
Author comments on changes in terms being used, such as: producers for farmers, units for hog barns, operations for farms, commodities for crops, FFA for Future Farmers, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for College of Agriculture.
Via online access. 7 pages., Examines the elements of an "honest vision for the future with a shared language that accurately describes our world." Size of farm is not the key indicator, the author argues.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23492
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Via Brownfield Network. 2 pages., Author reviews Fainting Goats and Malted Milk, a "fascinating little book of agricultural trivia or, more actually, trivial facts about agriculture." Cites it as a positive example of informing the public about modern farming.