Dealing with the media: A cautionary tale

摘要

Go to the Turner Classic Movies website and you will find this statement: "We have the following four movies starring Larry Johnson available." Such words are not usually seen in conjunction with the name of an eminent food scientist such as LawrenceA. Johnson, a former AOCS president who is a professor and director of the Center for Crop Utilization Research at Iowa State University (ISU; Ames, USA). Johnson appears on the Turner site because of a roughly 20-second interview with him—edited down from two hours—in the 2008 documentary Food, Inc.