Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog., Overview of mass media strengths and weaknesses, in terms of how educators might help improve the natural symbiosis between science and journalism, with focus on reproduction and child development-hormone-mimicking pollutants such as pesticides in agriculture.
Jukes, Thomas H. (author), Baker, Chester B. (author), Burns, Edward R. (author), Davis, Glenn (author), Hafs, Harold (author), and Jones, Hardin (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1976-09-15
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D03035
Notes:
Report No. 61, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), Ames, Iowa. 10 pages. Also, script for the National Broadcasting Company television program of the same title, produced for NBC News by Thomas Tomizawa. 47 pages., Response by a CAST task force to a telecast on September 8, 1976, featuring the use (and risks) of chemicals in the food system. Special emphasis on the use of diethylstilbestrol (a growth hormone used in beef production) and aspertame (sweetener).
