Censored 2000: The Year’s Top 25 Censored Stories
by Peter Phillips & Project Censored
Introduction by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow
Seven Stories Press; ISBN 1-58322-034-8
From leftbooks.com:
Censored 2000, a collection of the top 25 censored or underreported news stories of 1999, stands in stark contrast to what you see on the nightly news or read in newspapers. With the deteriorating quality of news reporting, the downsizing of newsrooms and the struggle against media conglomerates, the importance of this acclaimed media resource grows.
Censored 2000 features an outstanding lineup of media scholars and guest writers including: Robert McChesney, Michael Parenti, Janine Jackson, Nancy Kranich, Norman Solomon, Carl Jensen, Dennis Bernstein, Danny Schechter, Robin Anderson, Justin Lewis and Charles Klotzer. Introduction by Mumia Abu Jamal.
See also:
Censored 2000
Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 1999
http://www.projectcensored.org/stories/2000/
Censored 2001
Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2000
http://www.projectcensored.org/stories/2001/
Censored 2003
Top 25 Censored Stories of 2001-2002
http://www.projectcensored.org/stories/2003/
Reviews
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— I. F. Stone
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— Ralph Nader
in The Oklahoma Observer
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American Journalism Review
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Related sites
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“The Essential Issue raised by [Project Censored] is the failure of the mass media to provide the people with all the information they need to make informed decisions concerning their own lives and in the voting booth.”
Censored 2000: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 1999
http://www.projectcensored.org/stories/2000/
“For twenty-four years, Project Censored has been compiling a list of the top 25 undercovered news stories in the United States.
“The most under-covered censored news stories for 1999 have .... an emphasis on untold stories of Kosovo (6, 10, 12, 20, 22), foreign policy (5, 17, 21, 23), and international corporate power abuse (1, 13).
“Emerging this year are a number of stories on the mainstream media itself (7, 14, 16). With the advancement of spin techniques, mainstream media now tends to place emphasis on particular perspectives of news stories to enhance their entertainment value. In some cases, today’s media may also be deliberately spinning stories for their own political/commercial purposes.”
The censored newstories of 1999 voted most important by Project Censored:
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Multinational Corporations Profit from International Brutality
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Pharmaceutical Companies Put Profits Before Need
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Financially Bloated American Cancer Society Fails to Prevent Cancer
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American Sweatshops Sew U.S. Military Uniforms
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Turkey Destroys Kurdish Villages with U.S. Weapons
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NATO Defends Private Economic Interests in the Balkans
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U.S. Media Reduces Foreign Coverage
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Planned Weapons in Space Violate International Treaty
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Louisiana Promotes Toxic Racism
- The U.S. and NATO Deliberately Started the War with Yugoslavia
Some of the other major newstories censored by the mainstream “news” media in 1999:
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Evidence indicates no pre-war genocide in Kosovo and possible U.S./KLA plot to create disinformation
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U.S. media ignores humanitarian aspects of famine in Korea
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IMF and World Bank contributed to economic tensions in the Balkans
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US and Germany trained and developed the KLA
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U.S. nuclear weapons controlled by unstable personnel
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U.S. military trains soldiers to kill and eat tame animals
(Now if only someone would train soldiers to kill and eat their officers — that is, before they can reproduce — we’d begin to see some real improvement in human genetic standards.)
Media Beat
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/
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“Utne Reader called Solomon one of ‘the fiercest and most articulate media critics around.’ A Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote: ‘The bold, muckraking tone of these columns offers a welcome respite from the decerebrated discourse that too often passes for contemporary journalism.’”
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting — FAIR
http://www.fair.org/
“FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.
“As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.”
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