Retrieved 11/01/2006, Charleston Newspapers, via LexisNexis Academic. 3 pages., Author, publisher of the Anniston Star (Alabama), speaks about the role and worth of the community newspaper.
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 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."
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.