Censored 2018
  • Published: 15 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9781609807818
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $39.99

Censored 2018

Press Freedoms in a "Post-Truth" Society-The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2016-2017

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"[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

Did you know that over a thousand communities in the US are experiencing lead contamination at quadruple the rates found in Flint, Michigan? Or that the US Army has accumulated $6.5 trillion in expenditures that cannot be accounted for? What about the racially biased software used by judges to predict future crimes, or the fossil fuel industry's influence over environmental research?

Haven't heard the news? Neither did the rest of the world. That's because these and countless other news items are suppressed or ignored by our nation's "free press" every day. For the past forty-two years, Project Censored has been unearthing the buried stories that corporate media deem unfit to print—and debunking the "fake news" governments and corporations use to consolidate their power—to promote well-informed citizen action and critical media literacy.

This year's Project Censored yearbook features:

• "The New American Authoritarianism" by Nolan Higdon and Nicholas L. Baham III

• "Trump Universe," a graphic chapter by Adam Bessie and Peter Glanting

• "Defamation as Censorship in the Social-Media Era" by Elizabeth Blakey

• "Still Manufacturing Consent" by Edward S. Herman

• "Breaking Through Power" by Ralph Nader

Plus Junk Food News and News Abuse and Media Democracy in Action.

In a time of "post-truth" fictions and rampant propaganda, Project Censored is on the case, holding the corporate media to account for its misleading spins, convenient lies, and outright censorship.
  • Published: 15 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9781609807818
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

MICKEY HUFF

MICKEY HUFF is the director of Project Censored and an associate professor of history and social science at Diablo Valley College. 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 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.

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Praise for Censored 2018

"Project Censored's list of the top stories that get very little mainstream media traction should in fact drive the reporting agendas of every major news outlet. These 25 stories are clearly the most consequential of the year, and what is scary in looking at the list is how obvious it is that silencing reports of these themes protects corrupt governments and corporate gatekeepers. Project Censored is a lifeline to the world's most urgent and significant stories."--NAOMI WOLF