{"id":11816,"date":"2004-01-31T21:42:39","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T21:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/?p=11816"},"modified":"2018-03-31T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T21:47:12","slug":"acdc-news-issue-04-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/acdc-news-issue-04-05\/","title":{"rendered":"ACDC News \u2013 Issue 04-05"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>On “The Archers” – an enduring rural radio program\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

A\u00a0Financial Times<\/i>\u00a0London, England) article that we added recently to the ACDC collection featured Graham Harvey, agricultural counselor to “The Archers.” It is “the country’s most-loved soap opera about life in the shires,” having aired on the\u00a0British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)<\/i>\u00a0network since 1950.<\/p>\n

Harvey shared his perspectives on the Archers and other featured families in a changing world – tenant farmers, organic farmers, corporate-minded farmers and others. His analysis also extended to reasons that prompt urban listeners to remain actively interested in rural people, conditions, issues and trends.<\/p>\n

Reference:\u00a0Use a title search (Field marshall) or author search (Smockum) for the full citation.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Does ACDC actually include literature about rural soap operas and such? \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

You bet. In Britain, “The Archers&quto; series (above) is a major channel for rural-urban understanding. And early this year we added the report of a member survey involving the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association. The membership profile revealed a strong rural dimension and results of the survey by Bill Tedrick emphasized organizational communications and member decision making.<\/p>\n

From our perspective, the recreational aspects of rural communicating can be as worthy as economic, operational and other aspects. Whenever you see such literature, please pass it along or alert us to it at\u00a0docctr@library.uiuc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Reference:\u00a0Use a title search (Spirit of friendly competition) or author search (Tedrick) for the full citation.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Coverage of development news “neither significant nor encouraging.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

That is how D.V.R. Murthy described results of a 1995 content analysis of four India newspapers. Development news accounted for only four to eight percent of the total number of news items published. Coverage of development news on the front page was negligible in all four newspapers.<\/p>\n

Agriculture, health and transportation were main themes covered within that small sliver of the news hole.<\/p>\n

Reference:\u00a0<\/b>Use a title search (Developmental journalism) or author search (Murthy) for the full citation.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Gardening — Fun? Drudgery?\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

It seems that Americans consider gardening one of their favorite leisure-time activities. Results of Harris Polls between 1995 and 2001 consistently show gardening among the top five leisure-time activities mentioned, according to a report that we added recently. Other favorites include reading, TV watching, spending time with family\/kids and fishing.<\/p>\n

Reference:\u00a0<\/b>Use a title search (Reading, tv, spending time) or author search (Taylor) for the full citation. The document was posted online at:\u00a0www.harrisinteractive.com\/harris_poll<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Beefs about USDA information management.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

A commentary published in the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0earlier this year examined how the U.S. Department of Agriculture is handling a “dual, often contradictory mandate:”<\/p>\n