Censored 2000: The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories - Softcover

Peter Phillips

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583220232 ISBN 13: 9781583220238

Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

PROJECT CENSORED, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, has as its principal objective the advocacy for and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United States. In 2008, Project Censored received the PEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award for the publication of Censored 2009. For more information, visit www.projectcensored.org.
PETER PHILLIPS, director emeritus of Project Censored and president of the Media Freedom Foundation, is an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State University. He is known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independent newspapers nationwide, such as Z Magazine and Social Policy. He is also the winner of the 2009 Dallas Smythe Award, presented by the Union for Democratic Communication.

Review

Censored 1996: The News That Didn't Make The News -- And Why covers the important stories you won't find in your newspaper or on the evening news. Cited in past years as a tip sheet for television expose shows, Censored 1996 is investigative journalism at work. Readers will learn how telecommunications deregulation is closing up America's "marketplace of ideas", why the budget doesn't have to be balanced on the backs of th poor, how child labor in the U. S. is worse today than during the 1930s, the truth about the privatization of the Internet, the billions that are being spent to add bang to nukes, Newt Gingrich's radical plan to gut the FDA, Russia's policy of injecting nuclear waste into the earth, the annual cost of medical fraud, the ozone-killing pesticide the U. S. chemical industry is fighting for, what the effect of NAFTA has really been so far. In addition to the top 25 censored stories, Censored 1996 features censored stories from past years that have since received mainstream media coverage, what the oceans of ink for "junk food news" covered at the expense of real news, an eclectic chronology of censorship since 605 B. C. , top censored books of the year, a censored resource guide of alternative media and organizations active in censorship issues, publishing outlets for the underexposed, and unexpurgated reprints of the Top Ten censored stories. Censored 1996 is an amazing eye-opener for those interested in journalism, political science, and the media. Highly recommended! -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1583220232
• ISBN 13: 9781583220238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Illustrator: Tom Tomorrow