Reprinted editorial from Farm, Stock and Home. Recounts the dangers of withholding advertising because a marketer does not happen to like a certain article or editorial in a paper. "If this attitude of mind becomes general and advertising is distributed to the trimmers or the silent publications the public will be under the necessity of paying something like a reasonable price for publications that dare to be alive and vital. Perhaps that would be more satisfactory all around, for if an editor must write with both eyes on the advertisers, it's a long farewell to social, economic and moral progress."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16797
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Thesis, Master of Arts, University of Missouri. 97 pages, Examines the beliefs of the ag media, farmers, land grant researchers and government agency personal concerning sustainable agriculture.
USA: University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02874
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230 pages., Documents ready-print services (sometimes known as patent insides)that furnished newspapers printed on one side, or on two or more pages, to subscribing publishers. Estimated in 1912 to reach 60 million readers in the U.S. Author explores what was being written in those newspapers, and by whom.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22646
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Presented at the Agricultural Media Summit, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 31, 2005., Author is World President of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and Chief Executive Officer of IFP Media, which publishes the Irish Farmers Monthly and 30 other periodicals. Examines the relationship between advertising and editorial content, and suggests that integrity and impartial editorial content are "key to maintaining our product standard to ever increasingly discerning audiences."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22492
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1922 - Jul 1, 1922, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 4, University of Illinois Archives., Presented at the annual meeting of the American Agricultural Editors Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 15, 1922. 7 pages., Discusses his view of relationships among editors, advertising departments of farm papers, and advertising agencies.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 2 pages., Article tracks developments, including the judge's denial of an accusation in American Agriculturist that he took part in the promotion of a worthless stock involving Electric Gas Company of America.
4 pages., Via online., "The chief ethical fear for the past 99 years of agricultural journalism has been that one of our number would cuddle up closer to advertisers than others of us, and reap unethical benefits of that. The chief charge of every Ethics Committee [of AAEA] has been to protect our collective readers from any hoodwinking that would come from such collusion. As I look toward that 100th year, I wonder who needs protecting from whom." Examines pressures on agricultural journalists in the wake of divided audience perspectives about the role of agricultural media in covering contentious political issues
