Reviewing Project Censored's Top 2009-10 Stories
Founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, Mickey Huff now heads PC, working cooperatively with former director Peter Phillips' Media Freedom Foundation (MFF) and other investigative research and media related organizations. Together they counter major media real news and information censorship and suppression - what PC and MFF call "managed news" along with infotainment and miscellaneous "junk food news."
As a result, a "truth emergency" exists at a time, more than ever, real information is needed because media giants:
● support privilege over populism;
● endorse imperial wars and sham elections;
● suppress corporate lawlessness;
● ignore growing poverty, hunger, homelessness, despair, and
● an unprecedented wealth gap;
● 9/11 truth;
● a private banking cartel controlling the nation's money and stealing it at public expense;
● democracy for the select few alone; and
● much more of what matters most to working Americans.
PC and MFF provide antidotes. Besides annual PC editions, both offer daily web site daily updates, accessed through the following links: Project Censored + Media Freedom Intl.
The latest Censored 2011 covers the top 2009-10 stories and more in PC's richest ever volume, a collector's item like previous ones. Besides the top 25, it includes Junk Food News and News Abuse, Signs of Health, and FAIR's 10th anniversary of Fear and Favor in the News Room.
In addition, a new Truth Emergency section addresses State Crimes Against Democracy plus analysis of corporate media misinformation - the kind promoting imperial wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, expanded to Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Occupied Palestine, as well as covert actions in dozens of countries, and atrocities wherever America encroaches.
PC and MFF are there and expanding with over 30 college and university affiliates, because growing numbers of people everywhere know corporate and state-controlled news suppress what informed citizens need to know. Instead they're fed sanitized junk and treated like mushrooms - well-watered, in the dark, and distracted by "everything to sell and nothing to tell."