At a time when the need for independent journalism and for media outlets unaffiliated with and untainted by the government and corporate sponsors is greater than ever, Project Censored has created a context for reporting the complete truths in all matters that matter. It is therefore left to us to find sources for information we can trust. It is in this task that we are fortunate to have an ally like Project Censored.
Dahr Jamail
Activist groups like Project Censored are helping to build the media democracy movement. We have to challenge the powers that be and rebuild media from the bottom up.
Amy Goodman
Project Censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasting outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism.
Walter Cronkite
[Censored] should be affixed to the bulletin boards in every newsroom in America. And, perhaps read aloud to a few publishers and television executives.
Ralph Nader
[Censored] offers devastating evidence of the dumbing-down of mainstream news in America. Required reading for broadcasters, journalists, and well-informed citizens.
Los Angeles Times
One of the most significant media research projects in the country.
I. F. Stone
A terrific resource, especially for its directory of alternative media and organizations. Recommended for media collections.
Library Journal
[Project Censoreds] efforts to continue globalizing their reporting network could not be more timely or necessary.
Kristina Borjesson
A distant early warning system for societys problems.
American Journalism Review
Project Censored goes where the media conformist angels fear to tread. Its the kind of journalism we need.
Norman Solomon
Project Censored shines a spotlight on news that an informed public must have a vital contribution to our democratic process.
Rhoda H. Karpatkin, president, Consumers Union
Hot news, cold truths, utterly uncensored.
Greg Palast
Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge this collection of suppressed stories allows us.
San Diego Review
Those who read and support Project Censored are in the know.
Cynthia McKinney
This volume chronicles 25 news stories about events that could affect all of us, but which we most likely did not hear or read about in the popular news media.
Bloomsbury Review
Censored serves as a reminder that there is certainly more to the news than is easily available or willingly disclosed. To those of us who work in the newsrooms, its an inspiration, an indictment, and an admonition to look deeper, ask more questions, then search for the truth in the answers we get.
Creative Loafings
This invaluable resource deserves to be more widely known.
Wilson Library Bulletin
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SECTION I
Censored News and Media AnalysisChapter 1 Project Censored News Clusters and the Top Censored Stories of 2010 and 2011
by Peter Phillips, Mickey Huff, Elliot D. Cohen, Dean Walker, Andy Lee Roth, Elaine Wellin, Kristen Seraphin, Joel Evans-Fudem, Amy Ortiz, Kenn Burrows, and Tom Atlee, with additional research and editing by Trish Boreta, Bill Gibbons, Craig Cekala, Melody J. Haislip, Nolan Higdon, and Casey Goonan
Introduction
by Mickey Huff, director of Project Censored
CENSORED NEWS CLUSTER: Human Costs of War and Violence
by Peter Phillips and Craig Cekala
CENSORED NEWS CLUSTER: Social Media and Internet Freedom
by Elliot D. Cohen
CENSORED NEWS CLUSTER: Economics and Inequality
by Dean Walker, with research assistance by Bill Gibbons
and editing by Melody J. Haislip
CENSORED NEWS CLUSTER: Power, Abuse, and Accountability
by Andy Lee Roth
CENSORED NEWS CLUSTER: Health and the Environment
by Elaine Wellin and Kristen Seraphin
CENSORED NEWS CLUSTER: Women and Gender Issues
by Joel Evans-Fudem and Amy Ortiz
CENSORED NEWS CLUSTER: Collaboration and Common Good
by Kenn Burrows and Tom Atlee
Chapter 2
Dj Vu: What Happened to Last Years Top Censored Stories
by Mickey Huff with Project Censored Interns
Chapter 3
Framing the Messengers: Junk Food News and News Abuse for Dummies
by Mickey Huff and Adam Bessie, with contributions by Abby Martin, Nolan Higdon, and Clifton Roy Damiens
Chapter 4
Signs of Health and Emerging Culture: Stories of Hope and Creative Change from 2010 and 2011
by Kenn Burrows
Chapter 5
Media Democracy in Action
by Mickey Huff with contributions by Abby Martin, Tracy Rosenberg, Jeff Cohen, Lisa Graves, Josh Wolf, Khalil Bendib, Nolan Higdon, Ryan Shehee, and Emma Cape with Logan Price
SECTION IITruth Emergency Understanding Propaganda in Theory and Practice
Introduction by Mickey Huff
Chapter 6
A Brief History of Propaganda
by Randal Marlin
Chapter 7
A Theoretical Approach to Mass Psychological Manipulation: Jacques Elluls Analysis of Modern Propaganda
by Jacob Van Vleet
Chapter 8
Drawing Back the Veil on the US Propaganda Machine
by Robert Abele
Chapter 9
The Impending Demise of Net Neutrality
by Elliot D. Cohen
Chapter 10
A Tea Party Among Us: Media Censorship, Manufactured Dissent, and the Right-Wing Rebellion
by Anthony DiMaggio
SECTION IIIProject Censored International Human Rights and the Right to Know
Introduction by Mickey Huff with an introduction to the
Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage by Mary Lia
Chapter 11
Media Distortion of Nonviolent Struggles: Putting Dark Lenses on Colored Revolutions
by Cynthia Boaz
Chapter 12
The U S in Africa: Velvet Glove on a Military Fist
by Ann Garrison
Chapter 13
Establishing Ghetto Palestine
by Jon Elmer
Chapter 14
HBOs Treme: Exposing the Fractured Press Coverage of the Storm and Post-Katrina New Orleans
by Robin Andersen
Chapter 15
Single Payer Singled Out: Corporate Control of the Message in US Health Reform
by Margaret Flowers
Chapter 16
Censorship of the True State of Maternity Care in the US
by Ina May Gaskin