Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37352
Notes:
See C37280 for original, Page 73 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages., Author expresses concern about mediocre work in the farm press.
An editor's criticism of news material ("blah") from government departments, colleges and state departments of agriculture. "Do you know what happens to a publication that prints this stuff in too liberal quantities? I'll tell you. They go broke in a year's time." Also expresses concern that this is "one of the most glaring forms of waste in the name of agriculture today."
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1935-03-15
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36851
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 12, Page 2 in Bulletin No. 9., APA executive secretary reports on a recent news item about a newspaper that issued its first annual farm edition in tabloid form, 24 pages. The announcement goes on to say, "The section was handled by the regular staff in about ten days along with other duties." Author recalls the story about the farmer who exhibited an ostrich egg to his hens and told them that, while he wasn't scolding them for their efforts, they might take this as an example and try to do better.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37358
Notes:
See C37280 for original, Page 84 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
USA: Agricultural Editor's Office, College of Agriculture, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28305
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Estimated date of publication., 15 pages., Includes brief statements by alumni working in varied parts of this career field: Cordell Tindall, Ovid Bay, Cletus D. Stephens, Verlon C. Meyer, Robert E. Rees and George Logan.
Reports that focus group research among farm readers shows they want information that is not a commercial on the editorial pages they read. "Isn't it strange? The very credibility these folks crave is the first thing to disappear when publishers agree to relax their standards."
