Retrieved January 9, 2007, Via Boston.com, Commentator criticizes television weather reporters for failing to help viewers address the complications and implications of global warming.
Content analysis of newspaper and television coverage provides an overview, for the first time, of the frequency, depth and range of coverage of agricultural issues in the Swiss media in 2004. Authors observe that "it may be concluded that media coverage of farming issues is somewhat superficial."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25288
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Comments before the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Broadcast Localism, RM-10803. 2 pages., Author urged the Commission to seek ways to help maintain and encourage more localized agricultural programming on radio and television stations throughout the nation.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25554
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Retrieved December 28, 2006, In News Media and the Law home page, Vol. 24, No. 2, Page 16., Involves suit about whether Oprah Winfrey and her guest Howard Lyman did or did not knowingly and falsely depict American beef as unsafe.
Genetically Engineered Organisms Public Issues Education Project, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Format:
Television program script
Publication Date:
2002-08-14
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25881
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7 pages, Script of a segment on the "Donahue" program on MNSNBC TV featuring genetically engineered foods. Guests included a researcher from the University of California and the co-founder of an organic food company.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 200 Document Number: C26084
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Has been digitized and added to University Library Medusa Repository - Collection Agricultural Communications Documentation Center Multimedia Collection, Repository ACES (Funk) Library, Presentations during the 1969 convention of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters in Chicago, Illinois, November 29, 1969., Taped excerpts from a panel discussion that involved these farm broadcasters: Robert Miller, WLW, Cincinnati, Ohio; Paul Barger, KWWL, Waterloo, Iowa; Derek Rooke, WMC, Memphis, Tennessee; Dewey Compton, KTRK, Houston, Texas; Roddy Peeples, Voice of Southwest Agriculture, San Angelo, Texas; Ray Wilkinson, Tobacco Network, Raleigh, North Carolina; Dink Embry, WHOP, Hopkinsville, Kentucky; Arnold Peterson, WOW, Omaha, Nebraska; Royce Bodiford, KGNC, Amarillo, Texas; and Maynard Speece, WCCO, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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.
Describes a new television program, "Successful Farming Machinery Show," to begin for 18 weeks on November 1. It is described as "the first-ever agricultural program for farmers and ranchers devoted solely to farm machinery, on high-definition (HD) television."
Posted at www.agrimarketing.com/show_story.php?id=46300, Describes current efforts of various print and broadcast media that cover the rural lifestyle market.
Examines the irony that advertisers are selling products that have contributed to the collapse of a rural way of life that is being idealized in prime time television programming.
Describes Polycom, a marriage of speakerphone and video camera used to create interactions of poor, inner-city African-Americans and poor, rural farmers during a political campaign.
Retrieved online. 2 pages., "Farming issues typically receive little television coverage, but there has been a wealth of TV programmes on food and agricultural issues during the first two weeks of 2008." Description includes the return of a four-show run on BBC3, "Kill it, Cook it, Eat it."
Quinn, Larry A. (author), Brown, Lillian (author), and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Format:
CD
Publication Date:
2008-01-23
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: C27323
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Radio interview on "Georgetown University Forum," January 23, 2008. ~28 minutes., During this interview, Larry Quinn describes his career in agriculture-related communications, especially in terms of changing information technologies and public information services during the past 40 years.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27732
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Abstract available in CD and print formats., Paper presented to the Research Special Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences, in Traverse City, Michigan, June 10, 2008.
