Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22474
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1918 to July 1, 1918, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 2, University of Illinois Archives., Agricultural Publishers Association Archives. 2 pages., Appeals to farm readers to oppose a postal rider to the revenue bill which would increase the cost of carrying second class mail material.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22475
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1918 to July 1, 1918, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 2, University of Illinois Archives., Agricultural Publishers Association Archives. 2 pages., Opposes a bill for a postal zone system which he reports would discriminate against farmers.
" Who can lament the passing of perpetual risk and fear, anyway? But probably we have lost something profound if corporate culture, like corporate farming, has eroded our lively old democratic pleasure in storytelling."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23361
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College class resource. 13 pages., In section on labor skills the author notes how the new Nike assembly worker (trained in two hours) transferred from the rural sector loses mastery of "a great many skills such as a knowledge of the land, fertilizer, animals, tools, farm machinery, construction skills, etc."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23810
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"Tuesday Edition" via Poynteronline. 2 pages., Identifies sources of information and perspectives about farmer deaths by suicide. Cites the National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, Wisconsin.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23811
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"Friday Edition" via Poynteronline. 2 pages., Reports on coverage by a National Public Radio reporter of fraudulent claims by crop producers against the federal crop insurance program.
Retrieved June 28, 2006, Cautions about this term. "Behind the attractive epithet of 'participation' usually lurks the all-too-familiar patterns of dominance and control shaped by the mantras of 'modern' and 'progressive'."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24389
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Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, Iowa, via LexisNexis Academic. 2 pages., Comments on reactions of the food industry and some farm organizations to the book, "Chew on this," by Eric Schlosser.
White, Frank B. (author / Managing Director, Agricultural Publishers Association) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
1918
Published:
USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24824
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2 pages., Author argues that pending postage increases for farm periodicals will result in less educational opportunity for farmers. "In nine families out of ten, it is practically the only source of extended education which they have."
White, Frank B. (author / Managing Director, Agricultural Publishers Association) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
1918
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24825
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2 pages., Regarding need for repeal of the zone postage rate legislation soon to go into effect. "But the farmer will be the chief sufferer from the enforcement of this foolish law because he will be denied access to information upon which he is largely dependent for the prosecution of his industry."
Solomon, Norman (author) and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), New York, New York.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2000-03-23
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25048
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Retrieved December 7, 2006, Media Beat. 2 pages., Author challenges photojournalists to provide greater economic and social context for photos, such as those featuring the rural poor.