Describes how the editor of a rural Montana weekly chose not to report on the rebellion of a local group of anti-government militants, beyond running official press releases from the Department of Justice.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06742
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Online via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. PhD dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Publication No. AAT 9009561. Source: DAI-A 50/11, p. 3396, May 1990. 2 psges.
USA: Office of Governmental and Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: D10721
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8 pages., 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/, Describes 25 guidelines from a project to improve the effectiveness of USDA charts.
Cites journalism educator Don Ranley who urges maintaining the wall between editorial and advertising, in the interest of reader credibility. "I am not a businessman, but it has to be good business to be trusted."
