USA: University of Illinois Press, Chicago, Illinois.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24040
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304 pages., Insights into the economic, political and industrial forces that shaped documentaries during American television's first sustained period of muckraking, between 1960 and 1975. Includes the documentary, "Harvest of Shame."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20476
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Pages 79-94 in Joe Smith (ed.), The Daily Globe: environmenal change, the public and the media. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, England. 263 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23199
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Public Opinion Online, Roper Center at University of Connecticut via Lexis-Nexis. 1 page., Summary of responses to a question about the extent to which respondents understand what the U.S. Department of Agriculture does.
Via Lexis-Nexis. 2 pages., Describes the government's new food guide system, MyPyramid. "The site was so overwhelmed with users yesterday - an estimated 5.4 million per hour, according to the USDA - that many people were unable to access it."
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.
Communications resource preferences among employees of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, in risk-intense settings.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., "Educational programs of the Department of Agriculture were carried to millions of farm listeners in their homes during the last year by 149 broadcasting stations cooperating with the department. The stations devoted in the aggregate more than 1,000 hours each month to broadcasting information from the department."
