Reports on a court action requiring the USDA to release information identifying persons with whom officials met before they loosened rules on testing meat for deadly bacteria. "The agency did an about-face on the Listeria regulations, and the Consumer Federation of America suspected the change was due to ex parte communications with industry representatives from the meat and poultry industries, CFA lawyer Jillian M. Cutler told the RCFP." (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
Cooper, Ann (author) and Committee to Protect Journalists, New York City, New York.
Format:
Letter
Publication Date:
2006-05-15
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25267
Notes:
Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via CPJ web site. 3 pages., Letter from the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists to Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines. Urges efforts to ensure the arrest, trial and conviction of those responsible for killing Philippine journalists, including rural reporter Marlene Garcia Esparat.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29643
Notes:
3 pages., "In the place of our journalism becoming development journalism in the sense defined above, it has become 'envelope' journalism based on envelopes with press releases reaching newspaper offices."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36888
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 22, Page 6 of Minutes of the annual APA membership meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 16, 1973., Discussion emphasizes that the strength of farm publications comes from freedom of the press, "but this story has not been told very well."
