Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22525
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Delivered to the Agricultural Editors' Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 16, 1922. Annual report, pp. 8-12., Examines the relationship between state farm papers and national farm papers/magazines.
Starr, Douglas Perret (author / Texas A&M University)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2009-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28812
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3 pages., Professor of agricultural communications and journalism at Texas A&M University describes current economic pressures on inews media in terms of risks to the role of an independent press in a democratic society. Cites seven things that should happen, for the good of all in the United States.
Miraldi, Robert (author) and Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24428
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Retrieved July 7, 2006, 2 pages., Comments on the high cost Oprah Winfrey incurred in defending against the defamation suit by beef interests. "When an industry can haul a speaker into court for merely discussing food safety, the result, inevitably, is silence of the next speaker."
"The media contributed to the beginnings of a democratisation process when it acted as instrumental to forces opposed to an incumbent authoritative regime."
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.
