Overbearing?
OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the job description of PR is to grease the wheels and ensure clients get good media coverage.
Penned by a Dr Bruce Curtis, “formerly” a sociology professor at Waikato University, the title ‘Corporate Welfare for Agribusiness’ telegraphed which way he was going to screw the scrum.
Using the KPMG ag report as a springboard, Doc Curtis unleashed every cliché in the book: farmers making a profit was “farming privilege”; and the removal of impractical red tape was “regulatory capture in action”. And the Hound’s favourite sneer, “agribusiness is very focused on its bottom line”.
That’s right doc, farming is a business!
And it’s described as “the backbone of the economy” because that’s exactly what it is.
