Based on the work of Project Censored, the national media research project, 20 Years of Censored News reveals, year by year, the top censored news stories from 1976 to 1995. Of the 200 stories presented, less than 25 percent ever received sustained attention in the mainstream press. A disturbing report card of the media’s long-term performance, 20 Years of Censored News provides rigorous documentation of the national news media’s failure to keep the public informed.

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.

Featuring the top twenty-five censored stories of 1994, an annual compilation of events that were underreported includes complete reprints of the top ten stories, interviews with the winning journalists, and a chronology of censorship since 605 B.C. 

Author Carl Jensen has been called "the Ralph Nader of the media" for his annual list of the year's most underreported stories. Each year, Jensen and his 40 watchdogs, called Project Censored, find the top 25 stories conspicuously missing from mainstream media. This book contains all those stories, now fully reported. 20 line drawings.