Project Censored Releases Their 2010 List Of 25 Stories You Should Know, But Won't Hear From Mainstream Media
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Sep 23, 2009 2:00pm
Project Censored, a media research project operating out of Sonoma State University in California has spent several years looking at media accountability and how the freedom of the press aids democracy:
At Project Censored, we examine the coverage of news and information important to the maintenance of a healthy and functioning democracy. We define Modern Censorship as the subtle yet constant and sophisticated manipulation of reality in our mass media outlets. On a daily basis, censorship refers to the intentional non-inclusion of a news story – or piece of a news story – based on anything other than a desire to tell the truth. Such manipulation can take the form of political pressure (from government officials and powerful individuals), economic pressure (from advertisers and funders), and legal pressure (the threat of lawsuits from deep-pocket individuals, corporations, and institutions).
The latest edition of Project Censored is in and available on Amazon:
Here's this year's top 25 stories:
- 1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street
- 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s
- 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates
- 4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
- 5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products
- 6. Lobbyists Buy Congress
- 7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past
- 8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions
- 9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza
- 10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate
- 11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine
- 12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief
- 13. Katrina’s Hidden Race War
- 14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts
- 15. World Bank’s Carbon Trade Fiasco
- 16. US Repression of Haiti Continues
- 17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan
- 18. Ecuador’s Constitutional Rights of Nature
- 19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor
- 20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates
- 21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare
- 22. Obama’s Trilateral Commission Team
- 23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud
- 24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion
- 25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon
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I surely don't mean to be snide as I ask, if I don't hear about them how will I know if they happen?
Why did they censor the story of Sibel Edmonds from the list. Her story goes to corruption, blackmail, drug trafficing and treason at the highest levels of our government.
That's a VERY conspicuous omission.
I really don't see why the conservatives think "their" America is changing. We still have segregation and slavery to this day. What's changed?
The absolute most significant entry on this list is Obama's affiliation with the "Trilateral Commission." It is exceedingly dangerous to America and the world. It is where the secret meeting he and Hillary Clinton had when they ditched the press corps and disappeared together.
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/ar...
And I thought it was the item voted most likely to be a conspiracy nut story and there are several in the list that were eligible for entry in that category.
It's people like you, and the blanket characterization of anything too taxing for your brain to be labeled a "nut story", that enables the insidious secrecy to continue and proliferate. The perpetrators count on deniers such as yourself to further their evil agendas. (Move along people, nothing to see here.)
can be extended to any social gathering to which you yourself were not invited. Get help. There is something to see here and it is very,very sad.
Ha, ha. Tee Hee..... Talk about agendas
probably read these 25 most censored stories.
This is a pretty good list, and it illustrates an important fact: The "anti-Establishment" perspective on current events is trans-partisan in nature.
This list includes several topics that would be dismissed on this site as "right-wing conspiracy paranoia" if Project Censored didn't have a politically acceptable pedigree: "Obama's Trilateral Connections," the story critical of the UN's International Criminal Court, several stories critical of the Wall Street bailout, the piece about the dollar glut driving US foreign policy....
Those subjects could be covered by either In These Times or The New American; they would fit in at either CounterPunch or Prison Planet. It seems to me that rather than dismissing certain non-establishment sources as "wingnuts," it would be wise to evaluate their work on the merits and stop obsessing over labels.
RunAmok;
"It seems to me that rather than dismissing certain non-establishment sources as "wingnuts," it would be wise to evaluate their work on the merits and stop obsessing over labels....."
You are absolutely correct. "Wingnuts" do not hold domain on hidden truth, and there is much.
Shame on anyone still relying solely on their teevee to keep them informed. Almost everyone should know by now we can not trust corporate media. If you can read this comment you can Google anything and pursue the truth on anything censored by the monopolies on your computer. We are not China, we have freedoms.
We need sites like C&L to help us navigate the wilds.
Blue Lensman;
"We need sites like C&L to help us navigate the wilds."
Your astute observation is far more accurate than many readers of "Liberal/Progressive" blogs and other information outlets realize. Increasingly and very disappointingly, the practice of selective censorship and unfavorable manipulation of content is creeping into some of the most popular and trusted sites (HuffPo?). It is discouraging and was not anticipated.
Much to their appreciated credit, C&L has NOT fallen into this dark hole. This is more than admirable.
Here's your sign.
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have access to any kind of regular cable or broadcast television. Don't get anything from t.v. actually.
Time to declare independence from corporations that RULE OUR LIVES!!!
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Sound familiar?
...you sound just like a contitutional/teabagger (who is therefore possibly racist) for suggesting that we "go against" Obama!
(snark)
and found some Libertarians (the Populist Party) connected with this list. No wonder there are so many stories that make it look like Democrats and Republicans are the same. This is put out by a third party.
Speaking of Libertarians, there's one now
The Libertarians can fight among themselves for the flat earth award.
But the socialists have it in for the Republicrats.
When I find them in a party I can live with, maybe I will join up.
start your own Alice. I suspect you might be good at it.
For now it is a party of one.
But thank you!
"Progressive libertarian party"
It'll be a big messy party (just like politics should be) with all kinds of disenchanted dems, moderates, libertarians moderate republicans...socialists.
everyone will soon inevitably realise, (corporations, thinktanks, and the politicians they float...must go) ...common ground...set aside our differences for an election or two...
It'll be grrreat!
the Whig Party.
Touché…
If you find any socialists wandering around the libertarian party, put some smelling salts under their noses quick because they are somnambulant.
They might fall into an open pit somewhere.
But seriously, if you are talking about Libertarian Socialists as the Europeans understand the term, that has nothing to do with the American Flat Earth Society.
If you are talking about them then I am all ears.
Guilty-by-association much?
Add to that: the leaders of the G20 currently are to 'consider' re-regulation of the Banksters.
Meanwhile the same leaders are in WTO negotiations, the treaties to which supersede national sovereignty, the Doha round, which seeks to LIMIT regulation of the Banksters.
These Banksters, you must keep your eyes on them at all times.
Public fanfare is for public consumption, beneath that radar are the facts.
More info and a petition by Public Citizen are here
...can you say, ...goodbye "greenback", ...hello "world currency"
(brought to you by the same people who trashed the dollar)
The greenback will go the way of the Dodo.
It won't be the G20 that does it, it will be facts on the ground.
indeed! ...the G20 are (none other than) "the banksters themselves! aren't they!?
The leaders of the G20 are politicians. Some of them might like to be Oligarchs.
Oligarchs don't bother with up front politics, why should they.
They just pull the strings.
Another ONE!
Obama wants to renew portions of that dastardly Patriot Act.
The ACLU has a petition here
I have been wide awake for some time, but thank you.
It is the same CIA, the same MIC 1&2 (that is Military and Medical Industrial Complex), the same National Security State, the same Perpetual War and the same Banksters.
The front guy is not going to change all of that.
Unless he does.
But I AM NOT worried about his birth certificate.
Your paranoia is showing.
but just a quick netiquette lesson:
It's bad form to slam the site you're commenting on. Think of this as an open house at John Amato's home. You are a guest and as such, have a social responsibility not to attack other guests or the hosts or generally piss in the punch. If you keep doing so in multiple posts, it's no wonder the site team escorts you out the door.
Further, your allegations are just manifestly and provably false. I defy you to look at Susie Madrak's post and find her deferring to Obama as some sort of savior. I have criticized Obama since his candidacy when I feel it warranted and so do every one of the other contributers. Just because we don't see eye to eye with you doesn't mean we're blind to the failures of Obama and the Democratic Party. If we're raising money for our Blue America PAC to advertise against Blue Dogs, we're clearly not blindly partisan.
And your foolishness about Obama's birthplace just shows how credibly ANY complaint from you should be taken. How many times does that need to be debunked before it sinks into your thick skull?
Obama voted right along with Chimpy on everything...
patriot act...
immunity for telecoms that helped Chimpy spy...
bankster bailouts with no oversite (as per Chimpy)...
and all the war money Chimpy ever asked for...
meanwhile (after Obama is elected presider)...the wars go on, bailouts got bigger, and AT&T still spys (with immunity)...
...and those that admitted torture...go unpunished.
do journalists decide against publishing a story because government sources hold dear the very policies that conflict with the piece to publish?
I came in here looking for the floor but only see surface tension of a fluid process. That process being a "go along to get along" press and a public that mistakes conservatism for a boat that refuses to rock too far.
Why didn't ATC release the fatal descent rate of Connell's plane I wonder.
And why had the story stated "timing and circumstances of Connell’s death—between deposition and trial—are too suspicious and convenient for Rove and the Bush administration, not to merit a thorough investigation."
I doubt the investigation would have been less thorough without name-dropping the Bush administration.
Good pilots can get in over their heads when ice buildup on wing surfaces and the resultant unpublished V-speeds cheat them out of a life.
If the publications such as the Times and Newsweek wish to survive, it won’t be by “getting along”. That has been their downfall. These stories are what SHOULD be printed. These are the “Man Bites Dog” stories that will pique interest and change. Instead they play it safe, and leave the uncomfortable questions to be asked on the Intertubes.
I can sympathize with the so-called “tea-baggers” in their misguided frustration and anger over “big government”. They should be angry over mismanagement, overspending, overtaxing, and corruption in Washington. But they are being played. The time for the marches and rallies was 6-7 years ago. They are now being orchestrated to rail against who they’re told. Silly sheep.
I sometimes wonder what would have happened to Nixon if the Watergate conspiracies were exposed in this Faux News era. Most likely he would have become a national hero and elected to a third term. WaPo, where for art thou now?
And:
26. There are still more contractors than troops in Iraq.
Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
This would be a monster story in the MSM, if they cared.
why is Sibel Edmonds not on the list?! why isn't the ATC bribery scandal here?!
Kristen Mcguire aka Bridget Keeney
C'mon now, relax. Aren't you having a free reign field day now? Sometimes it isn't what you say or the revealing content, but the way you say it.
Politicians almost always prefer private over public. One can give campaign contributions and the other can’t. Paying for reform could be very simple, except for the $46 million of insurance industry money taken by Congress. Obama’s Dems are as lucky as the Republicans, so it has become a major congressional battle. Politicians don’t do things for free, don’cha know.
– Campaign cash is at the heart of every societal problem. Follow the money and you’ll virtually always find a politician at the end with his or her hand out. State and federal politicians are all the same.
– Obama made a massive strategical blunder by trying to pass any legislation without first getting campaign bribes out of the system. The bankers own the financial markets and the insurers own health care, and you’ve seen where these have ended up.
– The people don’t own anything, when at least they should own their politician. Had we public funding of campaigns we would have fixed health care years ago and our taxes would be 30% less than they are today.
– It usually has less to do with a politician’s core beliefs or those of his constituents, and more to do with which industry he gets his money from. And the industries know who can be bought.
– The corruption will not stop. It is the Number One cause of our economy crash, and it will continue as long as politicians take private cash for their campaigns.
– It is not the illegal corruption that is so bad, and anyway that will likely never stop. But the legal corruption, campaign contributions, is worse and must immediately cease. It is pure political bribery. If they weren’t in congress they’d go to jail for accepting bribes and even extortion.
Support Public Funding of Campaigns to fight special interests.
USofBLOODYISRAEL's arms used in war crimes in Gaza. So, now we know why the USofBLOODYISRAEL is blocking an investigation by the UN into the obvious, odious, henious, wilfull, wanton, rampage of violence that BLOODYISRAEL worked on behalf of the USofBLOODYISRAEL on the poor, silenced, oppressed, victims..........the people of Gaza. It was an Amerikan atocracy for the Military/Industrialists/Petroleum mafia AGAIN!!!!! How sweet for the Military/Industrialists/petroleum mafia that BLOODYISRAEL and their power dreams of Empire for BLOODYISRAEL to have us slaves pay for their whore.
I can only make it through a quick read of the first five in the list. Incredible, it's enough to make you sick. I'm serious, don't look into any of these stories before, during, or after breakfast. It will make you sick.
Regarding Sibel Edmonds, she's been in this list in the past, do your research. Do you think they're going to list her every year?
I wish the progressive blogs would take a look at this list and realize this is what we should be talking more about, and not the rantings of Beck and Rush. I swear somedays I can hardly tell the difference between the left and right blogs because they both feature headlines about Rush and Beck. So what if it's a different spin. In spending soooo much time covering these wingnuts we ignore what is a greater concern.
they may have covered Sibel Edmonds in the past, the story bears repeating, especially since the case seems to be moving forward, and new revelations regarding Jean Schmidt have come to light. The idea is to cover the TOP 25 most censored stories, no. 21, for example, should probably fall lower on the list than Sibel Edmonds.
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