Censored 2012
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010-11
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Publisher Description
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation’s oldest news-monitoring group—a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff—has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, 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. Seven Stories Press has been publishing this yearbook since 1994, featuring the top stories 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Although its table of contents reads like a list of stories from any issue of The Onion, every one of the articles in Censored 2003: The Top 25 Censored Stories are true. With chapter titles like "United States' Policies in Columbia Support Mass Murder," "U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water System" and "Bush Appoints Former Criminals to Key Government Roles," the collection covers important news stories that were censored for various reasons. In his introduction, Robert W. McChesney laments the "deplorable" coverage of three of the past year's major stories: the war on terrorism, the Enron scandal and the 2000 presidential election. The articles, selected by Peter Phillips and Project Censored, range from an explanation of how NAFTA has ruined rural farmers in North America to a look at how the federal government bails out failing private prisons. Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow are sprinkled throughout.
Customer Reviews
Coincidence or not? That is up to you, but these are the facts
If you are in search of news and/or information of and/or pertaining to the possibility of global media bias and/or selective entity censorship of news then this book 25 well documented facts is a treasure trove of food for thought. Download a sample and trial run one's facts.
Whether an novice or seasoned theorist, researcher or just plain curious by nature, you would be hard pressed to remember all the events that took place in let alone the series of these books, but just in the one year you chose to look back on.
Media is such important aspect of our cultures awareness and acceptance, socially or personally, whether it is biased or not, the news stories mentioned within the book are actual, factual and did happen. Censored or not, the news stories selected are still relevant, some rippling others still sending their aftershocks to us years later.
Hope the series becomes an indispensable reference compendium to you as they are to me in your iBook's collection and you search. A fantastic collection of information smoothly and professionally summarized and passed on to the reader for thought.
A happenstance of un-followed up news worthy events or not? That is up to you, but these are the facts.