9 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription, Researchers analyzed the effectiveness of the European Union Pledge, a self-regulation initiative of leading food companies at the European level, in restricting television advertising of food and drink products high in fat, sugar or salt to children. Results indicated that effectiveness was limited by the focus on children's program and the relatively lenient nutritional criteria agreed to by signatory companies.
USA: University of Illinois Press, Chicago, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24040
Notes:
304 pages., Insights into the economic, political and industrial forces that shaped documentaries during American television's first sustained period of muckraking, between 1960 and 1975. Includes the documentary, "Harvest of Shame."
Farm Journal Media reports staffing for "U.S. Farm Report," weekly television program. Also, "a full-scale introduction of the Top Producer digital edition is planned in September."
USA: Oxford University Press, New York City, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06837
Notes:
Includes perspectives about reporting techniques used in the CBS documentary, "Harvest of Shame." Also refers to communications impacts of the classic book, Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson.
