“We have made the planet inhospitable to human life.” That’s what the lead researcher in Project Censored‘s number one story this year said. He wasn’t talking about the climate catastrophe. He was talking about so-called “forever chemicals,” per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), linked to prostate, kidney and testicular cancer, as well as additional health risks, […]
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The Billionaire’s Press Dominates Censorship Beat
Since its founding in 1976, Project Censored has been focused on stories — like Watergate before the 1972 election — that aren’t censored in the authoritarian government sense, but in a broader, expanded sense. Reflective of what a functioning democracy should be, censorship is defined as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by […]
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Project Censored co-directors Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth title their introduction to this year’s edition of State of the Free Press “A Return to News Normalcy?,” drawing a direct parallel between our world today and that of post-WWI America, “when the United States faced another raging pandemic and economic recession,” with other sources of tumult as well: […]
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Lies of Omission
Every year since 1976, Project Censored has performed an invaluable service — shedding light on the most significant news that’s somehow not fit to print. Censorship in an authoritarian society is obvious, from a distance, at least. There is a central agent or agency responsible for it and the lines are clearly drawn. That’s not […]
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Walter Lippmann in Wonderland: Project Censored’s Top 10 Stories of 2019 Project Censored
Every year, Project Censored scours the landscape for the most important stories that the mainstream corporate media somehow missed, and every year the task seems to get a bit stranger. Or “curiouser and curiouser” as suggested in the subtitle of this year’s volume of the organization’s work, Censored 2020: Through The Looking Glass, which includes […]
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The Real Fight Against Fake News
Fake news is not a new thing. With the return of its annual list of censored stories in Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake News Invasion, Project Censored’s vivid cover art recalls H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. The situation today may feel as desolate as the cover art suggests. “But Censored 2019 is a book […]
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In America, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself and limits on the power of government to restrict it. But the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in the aftermath of World War II, presents a broader framework. Article 19 reads: […]