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Overview

The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of judges. Each of the top stories is presented at length, alongside updates from the investigative reporters who broke the stories.
Beyond the Top 25 stories, additional chapters delve further into timely media topics: The Censored News and Media Analysis section provides annual updates on Junk Food News and News Abuse, Censored Déjà Vu, signs of hope in the alternative and news media, and the state of media bias and alternative coverage around the world. In the Truth Emergency section, scholars and journalists take a critical look at the US/NATO military-industrial-media empire. And in the Project Censored International section, the meaning of media democracy worldwide is explored in close association with Project Censored affiliates in universities and at media organizations all over the world.
A perennial favorite of booksellers, teachers, and readers everywhere, Censored is one of the strongest life signs of our current collective desire to get the news we citizens need—despite what Big Media tells us.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781609801885
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 01/04/2011
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

PROJECT CENSORED, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen at Sonoma State University, has as its principal objective the advocacy for and protection of First Amendment rights, including freedom of information. In 2008, Project Censored received the PEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award. Most recently, Project Censored received the 2014 Pillar Award in Journalism and New Media, given annually to persons of conscience, conviction, and achievement who stand up for what’s right and what’s true in the face of corporate and political intimidation. For more information, visit www.projectcensored.org.

Table of Contents

Preface11
Acknowledgments15
Introduction25
Chapter 1The Top 25 Censored News Stories of 199927
1Multinational Corporations Profit from International Brutality28
2Pharmaceutical Companies Put Profits before Need31
3Financially Bloated American Cancer Society Fails to Prevent Cancer32
4American Sweatshops Sew U.S. Military Uniforms35
5Turkey Destroys Kurdish Villages with U.S. Weapons37
6NATO Defends Private Economic Interests in the Balkans40
7U.S. Media Reduces Foreign Coverage44
8Planned Weapons in Space Violate International Treaty46
9Louisiana Promotes Toxic Racism51
10The U.S. and NATO Deliberately Started the War with Yugoslavia52
11America's Largest Nuclear Test Exposed Thousands57
12Evidence Indicates No Pre-war Genocide in Kosovo and Possible U.S./KLA Plot to Create Disinformation58
13U.S. Agency Seeks to Export Weapons Grade Plutonium to Russian Organization Linked to Organized Crime63
14U.S. Media Ignores Humanitarian Aspects of Famine in Korea64
15Early Puberty Onset for Girls May be Linked to Chemicals in the Environment and Increases in Breast Cancer67
16Media Distorts Debate on Affirmative Action70
17World Bank's Resettlement Program Displaces Millions73
18California Convicts and Punishes Teenagers as Adults75
19Bacterium in Cow's Milk May Cause Crohn's Disease77
20IMF and World Bank Contributed to Economic Tensions in the Balkans80
21The Vatican's U.N. Status Challenged84
22U.S. and Germany Trained and Developed the KLA86
23International Conference Sets World Agenda for Peace92
24U.S. Nuclear Weapons Controlled by Unstable Personnel95
25U.S. Military Trains Solders to Kill and Eat Tame Animals97
Project Censored Honorable Mentions for 1999103
Chapter 2Censored Deja Vu: What Happened to Last Year's Most Censored Stories119
Chapter 3News Abuse of 1999157
Chapter 4Is the Press Really Free?165
Who is Killing the Press?165
Objectivity and the Limits of Press Freedom171
Is the Press Really Free in the 21st Century?176
What Free Press?183
Chapter 5Oligopoly: The Big Media Game has Fewer and Fewer Players187
Chapter 6The Media and their Atrocities199
Chapter 7The Media Battle of Seattle211
Chapter 8Information Equity for the 21st Century221
Chapter 9Media Accountability: News Councils and Ombudsmen229
Chapter 10The Battle for Free Speech Radio235
Chapter 11Falun Gong: Demonized in China, Downplayed in America253
Appendix AMost Censored News Stories for 1999 Publication Source List265
Appendix BMedia Activist Resource Guide271
Appendix CTop 5 Censored Reprints295
About the Editor340
Project Censored Mission Statement340
Index341
Postscript: How to Nominate a Censored Story352
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