The high costs of free speech

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Miraldi, Robert (author) and Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2006
    URL:
    http://www.cspinet.org/foodspeak/oped/miraldi.htm
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24428
    Subject Term:
    accuracy, beef, coverage, food safety, freedom of press, health information, information control, meat, nutrition information, and reporting
    Notes:
    Retrieved July 7, 2006, 2 pages., Comments on the high cost Oprah Winfrey incurred in defending against the defamation suit by beef interests. "When an industry can haul a speaker into court for merely discussing food safety, the result, inevitably, is silence of the next speaker."

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