Censored 2010 The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008#09

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• ISBN13: 9781583228906
• ISBN10: 158322890X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-06
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

"Required reading for broadcasters, journalists, and well-informed citizens."-Los Angeles Times"Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge this collection of suppressed stories allows us."-San Diego Review"For the smart and courageous news manager, this annual report is a virtual road map for the coming year's news schedule. Many of these stories should, in an ideal news world, prompt deep and lengthy investigative efforts."-The Village Voice"A distant early warning system for society's problems."-American Journalism ReviewIn addition to highlighting the twenty-five most important underreported news stories, Censored 2010 includes in-depth essays on select issues, plus updates on previous years' censored stories and the "junk food" stories that get all the coverage. An invaluable alternative media resource.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.Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored, 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.Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist and author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. His stories have been published in The Nation, Al-Jazeera, and the Guardian, among others, and he has received several journalism awards.

Author Biography

PROJECT CENSORED, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen at Sonoma State University, has as its principal objective the advocacy for and protection of First Amendment rights, including freedom of information. In 2008, Project Censored received the PEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award. Most recently, Project Censored received the 2014 Pillar Award in Journalism and New Media, given annually to persons of conscience, conviction, and achievement who stand up for what’s right and what’s true in the face of corporate and political intimidation. For more information, visit www.projectcensored.org.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Top Censored Stories of 2008 and 2009	p. 7
Introduction: Die, Newspapers Die: The dailies really died a generation ago, and now their corpses are following suit	p. 8
US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street	p. 12
US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s	p. 16
Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates	p. 19
Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina	p. 24
Europe Blocks US Toxic Products	p. 26
Business Booms for Lobbyists	p. 29
Obama's Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past	p. 32
Bailed-Out Banks and America's Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions	p. 39
US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza	p. 42
Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate	p. 46
Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine	p. 51
Mysterious Death of Mike Connell-Karl Rove's Election Thief	p. 56
Katrina's Hidden Race War	p. 60
Congress Invested in Defense Contracts	p. 63
World Bank's Carbon Trade Fiasco	p. 67
US Repression of Haiti Continues	p. 72
The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan	p. 78
Ecuador's Constitutional Rights of Nature	p. 83
Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor	p. 86
Secret Control of the Presidential Debates	p. 88
Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare	p. 91
Obama's Trilateral Commission Team	p. 94
Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud	p. 98
Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion	p. 103
Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon	p. 106
Censored 2010 Honorable Mentions	p. 110
Censored Deja vu: What Happened to Previous Censored Stories	p. 121
Infotainment Society: Junk Food News and News Abuse for 2008/2009	p. 147
Signs of Health: Stories of Hope and Change from 2008 and 2009	p. 175
Truth Emergency: Inside the Military-Industrial Media Empire	p. 197
Lying About War: Deliberate Propaganda and Spin by the Pentagon	p. 221
Fear & Favor: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting	p. 233
Index on Censorship	p. 241
The Hyperrealilty of a Failing Corporate Media System	p. 251
Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leaning, Conspiracy-Oriented Organization?	p. 261
Election 2008: Vanishing Votes, Disappearing Democracy, and Media Misdirection	p. 291
Expanding Investigative Research for Independent Media and Human Betterment	p. 317
No "Pretty Woman": Human Trafficking and Domestic Prostitution Reconsidered	p. 333
Water as Commodity or Commons? Issues from the 2009 World Water Forum	p. 355
Lesbian and Gay Standpoint Films	p. 367
Acknowledgments	p. 383
About the Editors	p. 398
How to Support Project Censored	p. 401
Index	p. 403
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