Via online issue. 4 pages., One of five articles featuring "The challenges of rural journalism" in this special section of the May 2007 issue of Montana Journalism Review. Centers on difficulties in covering the controversy over wolves in the West.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22477
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1920 - Jul 1, 1920, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 3, University of Illinois Archives., Agricultural Publishers Association Departmental, Associated Advertising Clubs of the World Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 7, 1920. 3 pages., Cites examples of misleading advertising copy being carried in some farm papers and encourages APA members to support the establishment of Better Business Bureaus.
Rutsaert, Pieter (author), Regan, Aine (author), Pieniak, Zuzanna (author), McConnon, Aine (author), Moss, Adrian (author), Wall, Patrick (author), and Verbeke, Wim (author)
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Journal article
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05816
Writer criticizes current language use and reports that he tosses flags and assigns penalties (per football) when he sees and hears misuse of language while watching television.
Via SignOnSanDiego.com. 2 pages., Author comments on science fraud in the academic, industrial and government sectors. Suggests that the latter two are the more serious.
USA: Metcalfe Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Office of Marine Programs, Narragansett, RI.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27891
Via Drovers.com. 1 page., "Critics are crying foul over this week's Time magazine cover story." Includes links to reactions from others. Accompanying this document are notes from an AgriTalk radio interview with Daren Williams of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. A link identified in this document provides access to the 19:35-minute interview.
Via online issue. 1 page., Author describes highlights of a radio interview between Mike Adams of AgriTalk and Brian Walsh, author of a Time magazine article critical of modern food production methods in the U.S. Author describes his approach to the article. Document also identifies access to an audiocast of the 15-minute interview, Notes taken from the interview are attached to the document.
1 page., "The question of reality is illustrated with the example of Arthur Rothstein's photography for the Farm Security Administration in 1936, and the issue of how much an image can be retouched before the fidelity of the image to nature is compromised."
House, Lisa (author), Fritz, Melanie (author), Ameseder, Christoph (author), Haas, Rainer (author), Meixner, Oliver (author), Dahl, Ellie (author), and Hofstede, Gert Jan (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2010-02-08
Published:
International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C35934
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In the Proceedings in Food System Dynamics 2010, Innsbruck-Igls, Austria, February 8-12, 2010. Pages 255-264.
8 p., What do journalists think about information source trustworthiness, bias, and fairness in communicating agricultural biotechnology issues? Fifty Texas journalists and 40 national agriculture journalists representing newspapers and television media responded to this study. Journalists believed university scientists/researchers and newspapers were trustworthy, unbiased, and fair, while activist groups were untrustworthy, completely biased, and unfair in communicating agricultural biotechnology issues. They were most opposed to public opinion outweighing scientists' opinions when making decisions about scientific research. A substantial positive correlation occurred between national agriculture journalists' attitudes toward democratic processes in science (i.e., the extent that public opinion is considered in scientific decision-making processes) and trust in newspapers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24915
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Bulletin No. 48. Page 2., Lawyer's brief includes the following in connection with a refusal to register the trade mark, Limestone Brand, a carthartic medicine, because the medicine did not contain limestone: "Ivory is a good trademark for soap and is not made of ivory. Gold Dust washing powder is not made of gold. There is no bull in Bull Durham. Pearline contains no pearls, and White Rock is water. There is no cream in Cream of Tartar, in cold cream or in chocolate, no milk in magnesia, in milkweed or in the cocoanut. These are all as remote from the cow as the cowslip. There is no grape in grapefruit, or bread in breadfruit. A pineapple is neither pine nor apple; a prickly pear is not a pear; an alligator pear is neither a pear nor an alligator, and a sugar plum is not a plum. Apple butter is not butter. All the butter is taken out of buttermilk, and there is none in butternuts, nor in buttercups, and the flies in the dairy are not butterflies."
Via online. 3 pages., Subtitle: A recent 8,000-word article in the New Yorker reaffirmed a trend in journalism of turning important scientific issues into a circus sideshow.
Opinion article, Via online digital edition. 1 page., Editor speaks to inaccuracies in politicians' descriptions of "farting cows" as a significant factor in greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11201
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Online via ProPublica website. 2 pages., Examines issues of bogus labels and related issues in the arena of food distribution, marketing, and communications.
Author examines several ethical issues identified in an analysis and public reporting of conversation involving an environmental blogger and a coal industry executive. Examination involved ethical standards of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Public Relations Society of America.
Advertising executive advises agencies to be extremely wary of unsolicited ideas and inadvertent use of ads that involve, for example, stereotyping of farmers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07873
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Pages 122-125 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech? ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
Author urges agricultural college editors to abandon entirely the use of the journalese term "story" and use exclusively in its stead the term "article," in every piece of press material, regardless of length. "In a scientific organization such as our colleges are, the use of the term "Story" is distinctly a psychological liability to the press-relations office, in my opinion."
This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -- "International" file section -- "OCIAC" file folder.
pgs. 1423-1448, Via online journal, Researchers who are interested in small towns and rural communities in the United States often find that they need to conduct their own sample surveys because many large national surveys, such as the American Community Survey, do not collect enough representative responses to make precise estimates. In collecting their own survey data, researchers face a number of challenges, such as sampling and coverage limitations. This article summarizes those challenges and tests mail and Internet methodologies for collecting data in small towns and rural communities using the U.S. Postal Service’s Delivery Sequence File as a sample frame. Findings indicate that the Delivery Sequence File can be used to sample households in rural locations by sending them invitations via postal mail to respond to either paper-and-pencil or Internet surveys. Although the mail methodology is quite successful, the results for the Internet suggest that Web surveys alone exclude potentially important segments of the population of small towns and rural communities. However, Web surveys supplemented with postal questionnaires produce results quite similar to those of mail-only surveys, representing a possible cost savings for researchers who have access to Web survey capabilities.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C37024
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4 pages., Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announces he will ask the White House Rural Council and Congress to reduce the number of federal government definitions of rural America.
15 pages., "Images with a negative valence trounced those with a positive tone in frequency and intensity, a finding that favors the more vocal opponents of genetic engineering."
Jukes, Thomas H. (author), Baker, Chester B. (author), Burns, Edward R. (author), Davis, Glenn (author), Hafs, Harold (author), and Jones, Hardin (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1976-09-15
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D03035
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Report No. 61, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), Ames, Iowa. 10 pages. Also, script for the National Broadcasting Company television program of the same title, produced for NBC News by Thomas Tomizawa. 47 pages., Response by a CAST task force to a telecast on September 8, 1976, featuring the use (and risks) of chemicals in the food system. Special emphasis on the use of diethylstilbestrol (a growth hormone used in beef production) and aspertame (sweetener).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30498
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Via Food Systems Insider. 1 page., About a petition from the Corn Refiners Association to the FDA requesting the option to use "corn sugar" as an alternative name for "high fructose corn syrup."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29178
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1 page., Author reports feedback from crop producers indicating lack of credibility of advertising appeals that involve yields and the related idea of financial gain.
