Censored 2015: Inspiring We the People; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2013- 2014

by Mickey Huff (editor), Ralph Nader (Foreword), Khalil Bendib (Illustrator)

Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group—a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff—has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, 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.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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Journalism

400 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 7, 2014

Reviews

[Ron Turner · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was disappointed with this year's selection. It was pretty much a laundry list of the same old conventional left-wing stories that have been around for years. Nothing really new jumped out. Here's the top ten:

1. Ocean Acidification Increasing At Unprecedented Rate
2. Top 10 US Aid Recipients Practice Torture
3. WikiLeaks Revelations on Trans-Pacific Partnership Ignored By Corporate Media
4. Corporate Internet Providers Threaten Net Neutrality
5. Bankers Back On Wall Street Despite Major Crimes
6. The Deep State: Government "Without Reference to the Consent of the Governed."
7. FBI Dismisses Murder Plot Against Occupy Leaders as NSA and Big Business Crack Down on Dissent
8. Corporate News Ignores Connections Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
9. US Media Hypocrisy in Covering Ukraine Crisis
10. World Health Organization Suppresses Report on Iraqi Cancers and Birth Defects

[Esmeralda Hernandez · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book speaks about the harsh reality of the world occurring during the years 2013-2014. However, I would encourage people to read it because we have similar issues that are still occurring right now and we people seem to keep ignoring them in hopes that they go away.

[Tina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. Nothing surprising here, and nothing to truly even make me look at anything a new way. Definitely not enough to encourage me to seek out the current edition.

[Shadow · Rating 2 out of 5]

Censored 2015 is a hot mess. What the hell happened to you, Project Censored? Identity crisis, or are you just putting out the annual book now to justify your continued existence?

I won't one-star it, because it does contain some useful and interesting information, just not the useful and interesting information it should contain.

Not recommended.

[Mike Wigal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty interesting topic, stories avoided by corporate media for reasons of self-interest which nonetheless are important for us to know.