Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26254
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From the Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, via Knight Ridder Tribune Business News. 2 pages., Describes career of Al Smith, long-time host and producer of the public affairs television show, "Comment on Kentucky." He previously headed a chain of rural weekly newspapers in Kentucky.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05732
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"Airing on the Side of Agriculture" from the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. 2 pages., Features Orion Samuelson, long-time farm broadcaster with WGN Radio, Chicago, Illinois, and his partnership with Max Armstrong.
"Farmers' lack of market power is the real enemy, so farmers and ranchers must work together to gain bargaining power, because, without it, independent farmers have little hope of survival." Mentions issue of farm organizations, agricultural trade and commodity groups misrepresenting their interests to Congress and policy makers by posing as the family farmer.
