The Invisible Farm: The Worldwide Decline of Farm News and Agricultural Journalism Training by Thomas F. Pawlick


The Invisible Farm: The Worldwide Decline of Farm News and Agricultural Journalism Training
Title : The Invisible Farm: The Worldwide Decline of Farm News and Agricultural Journalism Training
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ISBN : 0830415823
ISBN-10 : 9780830415823
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 202
Publication : First published December 1, 1996

The nature of rural life and food production is changing dramatically but remains overlooked by the major media. The Invisible Farm provies the first substantial accounting of this problem, addressing issues such as habitat destruction, loss of biodiversity, pollution, and soil degradation. Pawlick supplies readers with frightening examples of events taking place worldwide without public awareness. As these environmental problems get worse, farm reporters are disappearing from newspapers and television. Rural news and environmental issues are increasingly neglected. Pawlick argues that this lack of interest is partly due to less agricultural journalism training at universities. As a result, massive changes in farming, distribution, and production continue unabated while the consuming public is left uninformed.
A Burnham Publishers book