Censored 2000
The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories
Published on 4. January 2011
352 pages
978-1-60980-188-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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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, including freedom of information. In 2008, Project Censored received the PEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award. Most recently, Project Censored received the 2014 Pillar Award in Journalism and New Media, given annually to persons of conscience, conviction, and achievement who stand up for what's right and what's true in the face of corporate and political intimidation. For more information, visit www.projectcensored.org.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction by Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Chapter 1 - The Top 25 Censored Stories of 1999
- 1 Multinational Corporations Profit from International Brutality
- 2 Pharmaceutical Companies Put Profits before Need
- 3 Financially Bloated American Cancer Society Fails to Prevent Cancer
- 4 American Sweatshops Sew U.S. Military Uniforms
- 5 Turkey Destroys Kurdish Villages with U.S. Weapons
- 6 NATO Defends Private Economic Interests in the Balkans
- 7 U.S. Media Reduces Foreign Coverage
- 8 Planned Weapons in Space Violate International Treaty
- 9 Louisiana Promotes Toxic Racism
- 10 The U.S. and NATO Deliberately Started the War with Yugoslavia
- 11 America's Largest Nuclear Test Exposed Thousands
- 12 Evidence Indicates No Pre-war Genocide in Kosovo and Possible U.S./KLA Plot to Create Disinformation
- 13 U.S. Agency Seeks to Export Weapons Grade Plutonium to Russian Organization Linked to Organized Crime
- 14 U.S. Media Ignores Humanitarian Aspects of Famine in Korea
- 15 Early Puberty Onset for Girls May be Linked to Chemicals in the Environment and Increases in Breast Cancer
- 16 Media Distorts Debate on Affirmative Action
- 17 World Bank's Resettlement Program Displaces Millions
- 18 California Convicts and Punishes Teenagers as Adults
- 19 Bacterium in Cow's Milk May Cause Crohn's Disease
- 20 IMF and World Bank Contributed to Economic Tensions in the Balkans
- 21 The Vatican's U.N. Status Challenged
- 22 U.S. and Germany Trained and Developed the KLA
- 23 International Conference Sets World Agenda for Peace
- 24 U.S. Nuclear Weapons Controlled by Unstable Personnel
- 25 U.S. Military Trains Solders to Kill and Eat Tame Animals
- Project Censored Honorable Mentions for 1999
- Chapter 2 - Censored Déjà Vu: What Happened to Last Year's Most Censored Stories by Corrie Robb, Melissa Bonham, Bonnie Faulkner, Corey Hale, Willow Lyons, Paul Stutrud, Katie Sims, Victoria Calkins, and Project Censored
- Chapter 3 - News Abuse of 1999
- Chapter 4 - Is the Press Really Free?
- WHO IS KILLING THE PRESS? by Robin Andersen
- OBJECTIVITY AND THE LIMITS OF PRESS FREEDOM by Justin Lewis
- IS THE PRESS REALLY FREE IN THE 21ST CENTURY? by Janine Jackson
- WHAT FREE PRESS? by Carl Jensen
- Chapter 5 - Oligopoly: The Big Media Game has Fewer and Fewer Players by Robert W. McChesney
- Chapter 6 - The Media and their Atrocities by Michael Parenti
- Chapter 7 - The Media Battle of Seattle by Norman Solomon
- Chapter 8 - Information Equity for the 21st Century by Nancy Kranich
- Chapter 9 - Media Accountability: News Councils and Ombudsmen by Charles L. Klotzer
- Chapter 10 - The Battle for Free Speech Radio by Dennis Bernstein
- Chapter 11 - Falun Gong: Demonized in China, Downplayed in Americaline by Danny Schechter
- Appendix A: Most Censored News Stories for 1999 Publication Source List
- Appendix B: Media Activist Resource Guide
- Appendix C: Top 5 Censored Reprints
- About the Editor
- Project Censored Mission Statement
- How to Nominate a Censored Story
