Protest bias in ag news, media BY JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent HERSHEY Members of the agriculture community should register protests when they hear distorted facts from the print and broadcast media, says Cornucopia speaker Bernard Yoh. Yoh is communications director since 1974 for the Washington based media watchdog organization, Accuracy in Media. Born and educated in China, he joined the nationalist underground movement in 1937 when the Japanese invaded his country, and later fought as a guerilla leader during World War 11. He was a personal advisor to South Viet namese president Ngo Dinh Diem, and has counseled a number of other governments. Yoh has lived in the United States for the past thirty years, travelling and speaking ex tensively, including lecturing officers at the Air War College on counterinsurgency and psychological warfare. 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He addressed what he labeled widespread bias in both the print and broadcast mediums, especially citing presentation of the Vietnam War. “Journalists were willing to sacrifice that country to the communists,” Yoh observed. He further criticized lack of coverage of the widespread personal destruction that followed, calling it a “bloodbath.” Noting that 25 countries have been taken over by communism, Yoh further suggested that w<th even a tiny “crack in the system,” there would be a mass exodus of citizens fleeing communist op pression in many of those over taken nations. “If life under communism was tolerable, why would so many still want to leave 7 ” he continued Applicator session slated NEWARK, DE - The University of Delaware Cooperative Ex tension Service has rescheduled its private pesticide applicator training session in Sussex County for Wednesday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m at the University of Delaware today * n GEHLi Von paid inouie iu me agriculture community, calling it “still number one in America.” “You don’t realize how tremendous it is to have milk at such events you think nothing of having chicken these things are still a luxury in most parts of the world.” Yoh further singled out agriculture as the recipient of poor media coverage. Sensationalist, stories of failing farmers, and distorted facts about such issues as chemicals and farm labor, create a poor and unfair public image of American agriculture. “If you see something presented that you disagree with, act quickly!” Yoh urged the Cor nucopia audience “The only way they can get away with it is if you do nothing.” Research and Education Center (formerly the university sub station), Georgetwon. The original date, February 5, conflicted with the Delmarva Corn and Soybean Technology Conference ■ 9 € F r“ r*r< • ' ’ ■ " • 100 Series 700 Scries 300 Series Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 8,1986-A27 Co-ops training school UNIVERSITY PARK - Cooperatives have been an in tegral part of the success of agriculture in Pennsylvania and require strong leadership and a continuous sharpening of management skills to guide them through the turbulent ’Bos. That theme was echoed by a variety of speakers at the third Pennsylvania Cooperative Director School, which graduated a class of 27 recently. The three-year-old program is a joint venture of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, the Pennsylvania State University and the Pennsylvania Association of Farmer Cooperatives. The two-part, five-day training program is designed to develop director leadership skills in a variety of areas basic board powers, financial responsibilities, board-management relations and policy formation, to name only a few At graduation. 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Those cooperative directors graduating Friday included the following: Richard Barth, Penn sylvania Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA), University Park; Lee Brown, Inter-State Milk Producers, Oxford; Wilbur Burkholder, York Farm Credit, Chambersburg; John Castrogiovannia, DHIA, Mon trose; Dale Chapman, Meadville Farm Credit, Waterford; Johnny Corle, Bedford Farm Bureau, Imler; Galen Crouse, ILancaster Farm Credit, Stevens; Charles Freligh, Eastern Milk Producers, Cayuga, NY; I>ee Greenwalt, Eastern Milk Producers, Lawrenceville; Martin Grey, DHIA, York; Carlton Groff, Lancaster Farm Credit, Kirk wood; Marlin Hitz, Farm Credit, Lebanon; James Kennedy, Butler Farm Credit, Butler; Clair Koontz, Atlantic Breeders Cooperative, New Enterprise; James Madigan, Dairylea, Towanda; Alfred Munro, Northeast Farm Credit, Jersey Shore; Frank Orner, DHIA, Rockton; Dale Paulhamus, Eastern Milk Producers, Jersey Shore; Carolyn Rutter, PACMA, Dover; Earl Shutt, Mountain Orchard Cooperative, Orrtanna, Robert Smyser, York Farm Credit, York; Bryon Sollenberger, Inter-State Milk Producers, Curryville; Paul Turner, Bedford Farm Bureau. 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