Huff Mickey - Censored 2015 : inspired we the people

The world needs more brave whistleblowers and independent journalists in the service of reclaiming democracy and challenging the abuse of power. Project Censored stands out for its commitment to such work. Deepa Kumar, author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire and associate professor of media studies at Rutgers University

Project Censored provides the kind of fearless and honest journalism we so desperately need in these dangerous times. Peter Kuznick, professor of history at American University and coauthor with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States

For ages, Ive dreamed of a United States where Project Censored isnt necessary, where these crucial stories and defining issues are on the front page of the New York Times , the cover of Time , and in heavy rotation on CNN. That world still doesnt exist, but we always have Project Censoreds yearly book to pull together the most important things the corporate media ignored, missed, or botched. Russ Kick, author of You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know Is Wrong , and the New York Times bestselling series The Graphic Canon

[Project Censored] is a clarion call for truth telling. Not only does this volume highlight fearless speech in fateful times, it connect the dots between the key issues we face, lauds our whistleblowers and amplifies their voices, and shines light in the dark places of our government that most need exposure. Daniel Ellsberg, The Pentagon Papers

Project Censored brings to light some of the most important stories of the year that you never saw or heard about. This is your chance to find out what got buried. Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System

[Project Censored] shows how the American public has been bamboozled, snookered, and dumbed down by the corporate media. It is chock-full of ah-ha moments where we understand just how weve been fleeced by banksters, stripped of our civil liberties, and blindly led down a path of never-ending war. Medea Benjamin, author of Drone Warfare , and cofounder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK.

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... we are fortunate to have an ally like Project Censored.Dahr Jamail

Most journalists in the United States believe the press here is free. That grand illusion only helps obscure the fact that, by and large, the US corporate press does not report whats really going on, while tuning out, or laughing off, all those who try to do just that. Americansnow more than everneed those outlets that do labor to report some truth. Project Censored is not just among the bravest, smartest, and most rigorous of those outlets, but the only one thats wholly focused on those stories that the corporate press ignores, downplays, and/or distorts. Mark Crispin Miller, author, professor of media ecology, New York University.

This book is evidence of Project Censoreds profoundly important work in educating readers on current events and the skills needed to be a critical thinker. Publishers Weekly , on Censored 2014

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

CENSORED 2015

INSPIRING WE THE PEOPLE

The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 201314

Andy Lee Roth, Mickey Huff with Project Censored

Foreword by

Ralph Nader

Cartoons by

Khalil Bendib

Seven Stories Press

New York Oakland

Copyright 2014 by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff

Foreword 2014 by Ralph Nader

A Seven Stories Press First Edition

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, including mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Book design by Jon Gilbert

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Contents

FOREWORD by Ralph Nader

INTRODUCTION by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff

8. Corporate News Ignores Connections between Extreme
Weather and Global Warming

10. World Health Organization Suppresses Report on
Iraqi Cancers and Birth Defects

14. Accumulating Evidence of Ongoing Wireless
Technology Health Hazards

20. Estonia a Global Example of E-Government, Digital Freedom,
Privacy, and Security

TOP 25 STORY ANALYSES: STORY CATEGORIES AND
HISTORICAL THEMES

CHAPTER 2:

CHAPTER 3: : Sorry for All the Junk Food News and News Abuse... Now Heres Some More by Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff, with contributions by Lauren Freeman, Alexandra Blair, Bryan Reid, Sam Park, Crystal Bedford, Emilee Mann, Daniel Mizzi, Jess Lopez, Josie Ensley, Jessica Sander, and Darian Keeps

CHAPTER 4: : Inspiring We the People compiled by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff, with contributions by Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org, Davey D of Hard Knock Radio, Shahid Buttar of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Rob Williams and Julie Frechette of the Action Coalition for Media Education, David Cobb of Move to Amend, and Dave Maass of Electronic Frontier Foundation

CHAPTER 5: : The SUNYBuffalo State and Project Censored Partnership by Michael I. Niman

CHAPTER 6: : News Media Whitewashing of South Africa and the Legacy of Nelson Mandela by Brian Covert

CHAPTER 7: : Contesting Big Mining in the Americas by Dorothy Kidd

CHAPTER 8: : Justified Homicides and Their Impacts on Victims Families by Peter Phillips, Diana Grant, and Greg Sewell

CHAPTER 9: by Zara Zimbardo

CHAPTER 10: : A Brief History of US Imperialism, Propaganda, and the News by Deepa Kumar

by Peter Phillips

DEDICATION

Stuart Hall (February 3, 1932February 10, 2014)

Sociologist, founder of the New Left Review ,

champion for media democracy, and familiar stranger

Halls work reminds us that the audience for mass media messages need not passively accept the creators intended meanings; audiences can also interpret those messages in ways that subvert their intended meanings and challenge the social order that they legitimize.

An attempt to keep representation open is a way of constantly wanting new kinds of knowledges to be produced in the world, new kinds of subjectivities to be explored, and new dimensions of meaning which have not been foreclosed by the systems of power which are in operation.