Via online. 3 pages., Subtitle: A recent 8,000-word article in the New Yorker reaffirmed a trend in journalism of turning important scientific issues into a circus sideshow.
USA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 69 Document Number: D10769
Notes:
See this report in Document C02958. 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/, Pages 43-45 in Biotechnology: the challenge - proceedings of the USDA Biotechnology Challenge Forum, Washington, D.C., February 5-6, 1987. 56 pages.
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).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 125 Document Number: C17948
Notes:
28 p., Proceedings from a workshop sponsored by the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
2 pages., Via online., Editorial critical of the Los Angeles Times newspaper for championing the rise of plant-based burger alternatives without context, accuracy and logic.
