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."
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., National School of the Air to open October first - courses include lectures on important phases of farming industry.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., A representative of the Federal Radio Commission, Sam Pickard, argues that the farmer and the small town listeners are entitled to good radio.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Senator Arthur Capper suggests that farmers are getting more than anybody from the radio. Cites the new USDA National Farm Radio School as an example.
Communications resource preferences among employees of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, in risk-intense settings.
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: 146 Document Number: C23214
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Associate Press Online via Lexis-Nexis. 2 pages., Report on the new food pyramid introduced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "Internet users have visited the site an estimated 670 million times in the past three months."
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24113
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Gallup Poll Social Series - Governance. Via Gallup Brain. 1 page., Summary of responses to a question about levels of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the work is doing, as related to agriculture and farming.
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.
USA: University of Illinois Press, Chicago, Illinois.
Location:
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 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 ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., American Newspaper Publishers Association protests efforts by government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to control advertising content inappropriately. Article cites an example: "A 1933 order by the animal industry bureau of the Agriculture Department deleting from Jones's dairy farm advertising a jingle, 'Most little pigs to to market, The best little pigs go to Jones's,' on the grounds that it was misleading."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23512
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Iowa Poll, Des Moines (Iowa) Register and Tribune via http://poll.orspub.com/poll/ 1 page., Responses in a statewide survey (Iowa USA) to a question about respondents' level of confidence in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23506
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Time/CNN from Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, Westport, CT, via http://poll.orspub.com/poll/ 1 page., Responses in a national survey to a question inviting views about whether some portions of the federal government, such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture, should be moved to other cities elsewhere in the country.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23509
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Kansas City Star/Times via http://poll.orspub.com/poll/ 17 pages., Responses in a national survey to 17 questions about the performance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23501
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press via http://poll.orspub.com/poll/ 1 page., National survey. Responses to a question inviting opinions about the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 156 Document Number: C25342
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From Vocal Point column via Food Safety Network. 3 pages., Author challenges accuracy of widely-accepted government statistics claiming that Americans spend under 10 percent of their disposable income on food.
Hess, Charles E. (author / Assistant Secretary for Science and Education, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06596
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James F. Evans Collection; Paper presented at the Third Annual National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Meeting, In: MacDonald, June Fessenden, ed. Agricultural biotechnology at the crossroads : biological social & institutional concerns. Ithaca, NY : National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, 1991. p. 138-143
Reports on "an intense debate over government-funded efforts to influence news coverage" related in particular to the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
Farsetta, Diane (author) and Center for Media and Democracy, Madison, Wisconsin.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2005-06-24
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25080
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Retrieved December 7, 2006, Author's blog via Center for Media and Democracy. 8 pages., Sample concerns about video news releases, included reference to those produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding a controversial trade agreement proposal.
