Censored 2017: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2015-2016 By Mickey Huff
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The annual yearbook from Project Censored features the year s most underreported news stories striving to unmask censorship self censorship and propaganda in corporate controlled media outlets Featuring the top 25 most underreported stories as voted by scholars journalists and activists across the country and around the world as well as chapters exploring timely issues from the previous year with in depth analysis From the Trade Paperback edition Censored 2017 The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2015 2016 Media power is political power To give citizens a choice in ideas and information is to give them a choice in politics If a nation has narrowly controlled information it will soon have narrowly controlled politics Ben H Bagdikian The Media Monopoly Foreword Mark Crispin Miller Our Free Press as a Clear and Present Danger Why We Need Project Censored Forty Years Later pp. Censored 2017 kindle unlimited 11 Our free press unanimously justified the 1983 invasion of Grenada the 1989 invasion of Panama the first Gulf War on 1990 unanimously hailing it as a miraculous success and the intervention in Yugoslavia in 1999 unanimously blacking out the horrors of NATO s humanitarian bombing there Such unity against The Enemy dates back to World War I when our free press was first systematically deployed for propaganda purposes To treat us not as citizens to be informed but as subjects to be mobilized for war was the purpose of most news in WWI the Soviets from 1917 the Red Scare in 1919 and eventually the Cold War pitting us against the Red Colossus that would crush our freedom rights and property and our free press p. Censored 2017 ebookers 12 There is of course some irony in that last threat because our free press itself was often just as bellicose authoritarian repetitive and hostile to dissent as its chained counterparts behind the Iron Curtain Far from hailing those who tell the awful truth as All the President s Men the US press has often banished them p. Book Censored 2017 dodge 13 14 Thus our free press has turned the truth completely upside down Contrary to that image of Ukraine as Putin s trembling prey with his designs endangering world peace the hard truth is that the US struck first by managing the coup that ended Ukraine s fledging democracy ousting the elected president in favor of a junta rife with neo Nazi activists and neoliberal technocrats p. EPub Censored 2017 gmc 14 All this the US press unanimously misreported as a revolution by pro Europe Ukrainians clamoring for Western freedom and prosperity a pretty story that the press maintained by leaving out whatever ugly details didn t fit Despite the glaring evidence of rampant neo Nazi violence throughout the revolution and overt Nazi pedigree of certain parties angling to take power the Times Washington Post Time Daily Beast and others laughed it off as Russian propaganda That this revolution was a US sponsored coup US sponsored coup came clear on February 7 2014 when someone posted a bugged phone chat between Victoria Nuland an assistant secretary of state and Geoffrey Pyatt US ambassador to Ukraine The two discussed the crisis not as interested observers but as managers with Nuland loftily deciding which of Ukraine s pols should go into the government and which should not and if Europe won t help seal the deal well Fuck the EU Chapter 1 The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2015 16 compiled and edited by Andy Lee Roth Introductionp. Censored 2017 kindle books news uses data from Google News to provide a visualization of news topics that are popular globally but underreported in the user s location or a location selected by the user Google News tracks over seventy five thousand news outlets in than 38 languages Jigsaw is a subsidiary of Alphabet which also owns Google To determine what news is less reported in a region Unfiltered. Book Censored 2017 chevy news uses an algorithm that compares the number of times a topic is mentioned worldwide against the number of times it is mentioned in that location The result according to the website is a cross lingual signal for who is saying what in the world s media The site features a timeline that allows users to track how coverage of a topic has changed over time Using Google Translate the site allows users to read headlines in any of forty different languages A Note on Research and Evaluation of Censored News Storiesp. EPub Censored 2017 chevy 40 By the time a story appears in the pages of Censored it has undergone at least five distinct rounds of review and evaluation Although the stories that Project Censored brings forward may be socially and politically controversial and sometimes even psychologically challenging we are confident that each is the result of serious journalistic effort and therefore deserves greater public attention p. Censored 2017 ebooks online 50 Biased search rankings could shift the voting preference of undecided voters by 20% or The effect could be greater than 20 percent in some demographic groups and perhaps most significantly this search ranking bias could be masked so that people show no awareness of the manipulation Chapter 3 The Corporate Media s War on Reality Faux Elections and the Fa ade of Democracy Junk Food News and News Abuse for 2015 16p. Censored 2017 epub.pub 149 If the public does not receive all the information it needs to make informed decisions then some form of news blackout is taking place some issues are overlooked what we call censored and other issues are over covered what we call junk food news Carl Jensen founder Project Censored p. Censored 2017 pdf editor 149 150 How in the world could Richard Nixon be re elected to the presidency after taking part in Watergate When Sonoma State University SSU professor Carl Jensen asked this question in 1976 few could have predicted that he would turn it into an education project that transformed the lives of thousands of students and millions of readers p. Censored 2017nba 150 Jensen s research concluded that Nixon was held to no noteworthy media scrutiny during his 1972 re election bid because the corporate media ignored Watergate However the independent press had continued to note Nixon s involvement in the crime and eventually Nixon resigned Most academics would have completed a study like Jensen s published it and begun the next project Not Jensen Jensen sought to ameliorate the social problem of citizens receiving information from a propagandistic and inaccurate corporate media system He began having his students compare corporate and independent news coverage every semester to document what was and was not being covered by corporate media The top twenty five independent news stories that were ignored by the corporate press were published in an annual list distributed for public consumption Their project was dubbed Project Censored The News that Didn t Make the News and it is now a forty year bastion of media and democracy in action p. Censored 2017 kindle books com censored a serial killer s autobiography Robert de Niro was pressured to remove a controversial film on vaccines from his own festival and University of California Davis paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a public relations firm to censor images and scrub the Web of one of their officers using unnecessary force against peaceful protestors in 2011 In a particularly egregious example of digital censorship social media platform Facebook blocked a leak of 7000 Hillary Clinton emails from whistleblower organization WikiLeaks Facebook was also caught earlier this year specifically censoring some conservative sources on news feeds and trending stories This kind of social media censorship is worrisome considering that a majority of US citizens now claim to receive their news from Facebook and other social media platforms p. Censored 2017nba 155 Trivial stories and celebrity demagoguery were mainstay of the 2016 presidential primary season While Americans stayed glued to the corporate media s embarrassing exercise in entertainment deceitfully presented as democracy the independent press published numerous newsworthy stories For one key example consider how the corporate media focused on election gossip and some of the aforementioned non issues while diminishing their coverage of police violence The independent press however continued to cover police killings of unarmed people of color that terrorize communities around the country Comparably while the corporate media argued that democracy depends on choosing between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump the independent press covered real displays of civic action like the Democracy Spring a protest movement against the influence of money in politics In April 2016 seven hundred people were arrested in Washington DC as part of these protests which received little to no corporate media coverage So while some of the Junk Food News of the 2016 presidential primary season may make one laugh it is only funny until one realizes that the joke is on us We the People p. Kindle Censored 2017 jeep 156 By spring Trump had received nearly triple the coverage of Hillary Clinton That equates to 2 billion in free coverage for Trump For example in a single 24 hour news cycle a story about or ad for Trump ran sixty times on Fox MSNBC and CNN at no cost to Trump p. EPub Censored 2017 toyota 157 This is problematic considering that studies have shown that the a candidate is covered the higher they rise in the polls In comparison to Trump the Sanders campaign received only one third of the amount of media coverage In actual airtime Trump s campaign received 81 times airtime than Sanders p. Censored 2017max 164 The corporate media s refusal to delineate between fact and opinion slant and bias perspective and falsehood allowed the election coverage to co opt serious issues of equity and social justice including racial and gender prejudice immigration climate change human rights sexuality and civil liberties Further it allowed for political falsehoods to permeate the corporate media echo chamber Chapter 7 Selling Empire Warm and Capitalism Public Relations Propaganda Firms in Service to the Transnational Capitalist Classp. Book Censored 2017 kia 286 Propaganda a tool closely aligned with public relations is defined as the dissemination of ideas and information for the purpose of inducing or intensifying specific attitudes and actions Propaganda is generally categorized into various subgroups including religious political commercial literary wartime and Cold War varieties and has been widely used by the Central Intelligence Agency CIA and other government agencies to advance political social and economic interests p. Kindle Censored 2017 ford 288 In Manufacturing Consent 1988 Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky claim that because media is firmly embedded in the market system it reflects the class values and concerns of its owners and advertisers According to Herman and Chomsky the media maintain a corporate class bias through five systemic filters concentrated private ownership a strict bottom line profit orientation overreliance on governmental and corporate sources for news a primary tendency to avoid offending the powerful and an almost religious worship of the market economy strongly opposing alternative beliefs and ideologies These filters limit what will become news in society and set parameters on acceptable coverage of daily events Chapter 10 Who s Afraid of Critical Media Literacy p. Censored 2017 pdf 369 When I began my schooling in the all black segregated schools of Kentucky in the fifties I was lucky to be taught by African American teachers who were genuinely concerned that I along with all their other pupils acquired a good education To those teachers a good education was not just one that would give us knowledge and prepare us for a vocation it was also an education that would encourage an ongoing commitment to social justice particularly to the struggle for racial equality bell hooks English
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., PDF Censored 2017 honda 35 In March 2016 when a tech incubator known as jigsaw announced the launch of Unfiltered: Censored 2017 ebookers news an online tool for tracking important global stories and perspectives that may not be covered in your location we at the Project noted the development with interest Unfiltered: Book Censored 2017 nissan 153 Since Jensen developed Project Censored news forms of censorship have arisen in the digital age For example just this past year Outskirts Press in conjunction with .11 23p