Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29365
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Via Drovers magazine. 3 pages., AgriTalk host Mike Adams interviews Bryan Walsh, author of a Time magazine cover article critical of the food and farming system and practices. Issue of balance in reporting of news media.
Cover article in Time magazine critical of the food and farming system and practices. Created controversy, in part, for lack of objectivity and balance within the context of a news magazine cover story. Note: Article also identified as "Getting real about the high price of cheap food."
Via online. 1 page., Author notes how some journalists are now given the freedom to produce stories with the angles they prefer rather than provide objective and balanced reporting.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02241
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Pages 195-208 in Jane M. Perkins and Nancy Blyler (eds.), Narrative and professional communication, Ablex Publishing Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut. 224 pages., Author recommends telling and living stories oriented toward sustainability "oriented, that is, toward communal interdependence, where people, animals, and the land share a place..." "Rot belt" refers to the agricultural equivalent of the "Rust Belt."