Censored 2000: The Year’s Top 25 Censored Stories
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Censored 2000: The Year’s Top 25 Censored Stories
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.
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Customer Reviews 16 of 18 people found the following review helpful Censored 2000, April 2, 2000 By John Carmitchel (Pittsfield, USA) – See all my reviews The title of the book is Censored 2000, and the idea is good. One of the books is done every year–it tells of the stories the media prefers you don’t know, shows a side to the news seldom seen, showing how the mindless time used for uplifting yet mindless stories about getting some cat out of a tree could be better used to show the facts of the Abu-Jamal case or something more controversial. It makes you think back to those nights you turned the news off with a disgusted sigh, saying, "There’s no news." And whether you approve or disapprove of the stories, whether something tugs at you, saying This Couldn’t Be…no matter how many times you are positive the book is a heap of lies…it makes you think about truth, the monopoly that may exist in the media. It can do what many other books try in vain to do and miss…it will make you think. And that is the greatest revelation your mind can receive. The book also contains an intro by Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black journalist who was convicted of killing a Philadelphian policeman, though much evidence shows this not to be true. Just reading the introduction makes the book completely worth any money you fork over for it.
 Brain Food to Fight the Pablum of the Evening News, August 8, 2001 By doomsdayer520 (Pennsylvania) – See all my reviews  I’ve read several of these annual Project Censored books, and each time I have become more and more disillusioned with the weaknesses of the mainstream news media. The ever-growing corporate control of the network/cable news and newspapers has encouraged several reviewers of this book to cite conspiracy theories and yell out cheesy, predictable slogans like "take the power back!" and assume it’s the end of the world. I won’t go that far, but the fact that a shrinking number of corporations control a large percentage of the mainstream media, as amply illustrated in this book, is indeed a disturbing trend. I now believe very little of what I see on the TV news, without taking it with a very large grain of salt. The fact that many of the top 25 "censored" stories in this book are based on coverups of corporate lawbreaking or unethical behavior is very telling. The mainstream news has become a vehicle for corporate profits, and any journalistic scoops that could possibly threaten these profits are impossible to find on the TV news. Some good features of this book are the intros by Walter Cronkite and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the use of one of my favorite comic strips, "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow. Some of the essays by various media watchdogs and analysts are fascinating as well. But this book does have some drawbacks though, including a repetitive condemnation of the mainstream news organizations (you can say it a few times, but a million times is tedious), and there’s an annoyingly long write-up of a corporate-backed police crackdown on an independent radio station in Pacifica, California. The Project Censored series overall would benefit from some more focus and less proselytizing. But it’s not too hard to avoid those weaknesses and focus on the censored stories, which are mostly worth worrying about. And it’s not just a leftist rant, either. 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful This book outlines the stories that didn’t, but should have, made the news. Very informative! Finishing this book has made me even more ‘curious’ about the daily written, TV and radio news. |
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