International: Zimmcomm New Media, Cantonment, Florida.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12106
Notes:
Online from ZimmComm News Media. 2 pages., A pioneer in agricultural uses of new social media expresses concern about FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube having become political weapons. "Since the election, the level of censorship on all of the major social media platforms has just skyrocketed. Never in our wildest dreams did we ever think that freedom of speech and the press might be endangered in this country, but we do believe it is right now." FaceBook and Twitter platforms "are both essentially business platforms. Author reports a decision to put a temporary hold on ZimmComm business FaceBook accounts.
Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog., Article about legal actions involving two television reporters who were fired from a Florida station for refusing to broadcast "what they knew and documented to be false and distorted information about Monsanto's bovine growth hormone (BGH) - a genetically engineered product that has been linked to the proliferation of breast, prostate and colon cancer cells in humans." Includes their scripts, as well as the censored version.
Argues that the discipline of a total political and social revolution, it is stated, requires the self-discipline (in no way synonymous with control) and responsibility of the writer, as of any other citizen, in ensuring that the initial premises of the revolution are not betrayed, either by selfish failings on the part of the creator or by dogmatic temptations of functionaries. (Author)
Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems Project "Public Goods and University-Industry Relationships in Agricultural Biotechnology"
Format:
Online article
Publication Date:
2003-11-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: C18893
Notes:
59 pages; November 19-20, 2002 Charles Hamner Conf. Center Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Rao, Leela (author / Professor, Department of Communication, Bangalore University, India) and Professor, Department of Communication, Bangalore University, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 72 Document Number: C03354
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 8 Document Number: D10309
Notes:
Online from Reveal, posted by the Center for Investigative Reporting, Emoryville, California., "The word 'anthropogenic,' the term for people's impact on nature, was removed from the executive summary of the sea level rise report for the National Park Service."
