Via UI Library subscription., Study aimed to provide tools to improve the quality of journalism regarding ethical issues that concern our relationship with nonhuman animals. Explored the role of news media (two years of coverage by the New York Times newspaper, U.S., and El Pais, Spain) in constructing perceptions of nonhumans used for food and their treatment. Results showed that both newspapers played a major role in concealing the nonhumans' cruel treatment, but a distinction can be drawn between the crude speciesism of El Pais and the camouflaged, more deceptive style of the New York Times.
Periodical is called to testify in a Senate hearing that involved the so-called sisal trust or fibre monopoly "which has recently sent upward the cost of the raw material from which binding twine is made." Farm Implement News "has been conducting a vigorous campaign against the manipulations of the monopoly…"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06633
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Aggregated statistical summary of responses from IFAJ guilds in 17 of 30 member countries. Individual countries not identified. Report also includes narrative responses to the 10 survey questions. 13 pages.
Via online., Author described favorable media coverage and public relations support for new crop biotechnologies announced - and lack of scientific evidence of effectiveness during the following 18 years.
