Metro News Journalists Critique Food Biotechnology Academic Article

abstract

• The results of this study may encourage researchers, educators, and industry professionals to change behavior and to collaborate with journalists and the social institution of mass media to inform consumers about food biotechnology. Eighty-eight journalists for 65 of the nations largest newspapers provided data for the study. Major findings were as follows: journalists knowledge of food biotechnology was relatively low; most journalists considered genetic modification of plants as acceptable, and journalists had greatest faith in university scientists as sources. Too, Writers rather than Editors had greater acceptance of genetically modified organisms, greater faith in sources, and less fear of using biotechnology to produce food.

authors

• Briers, Gary

published proceedings

• Journal of Applied Communications

author list (cited authors)

• Vestal, T. A., & Briers, G. E.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Vestal, Tom A||Briers, Gary E

publication date

• January 1999

publisher

• New Prairie Press  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Applied Communications  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.4148/1051-0834.2139

start page

• 22

end page

• 34

volume

• 83

issue

• 2

URL

• http://newprairiepress.org/jac/vol83/iss2/2/