Project Censored

March 8th, 2010 | by admin |

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Project Censored is a national research effort launched in 1976 by Dr. Carl Jensen, professor emeritus of Communications Studies at Sonoma State University. Upon Jensen’s retirement in 1996, leadership of the project was passed to associate professor of sociology and media research specialist, Dr. Peter Phillips.

Under Phillips’s guidance, Project Censored tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters, and every year the group compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country’s major national news media.

Veteran broadcaster Walter Cronkite said Project Censored “is one of the organization’s we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and broadcasting outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism.”

Phillips says, “the restructuring of media in the United States is creating forms of censorship that are as potentially damaging as overt censorship.”

“Media corporations have been undergoing a massive merging process that is realigning our sources of information in America,” Phillips wrote in a an op-ed recently. “Values such as freedom of information and belief in the responsibility of keeping the public informed are adjusted to reflect policies created by bottom-line oriented CEOs. Media owners and managers are motivated to please advertisers and upper-middle-class readers and viewers. Journalists and editors are not immune from management influence. Journalists want to see their stories approved for print or broadcast, and editors come to know the limits of their freedom to diverge from the bottom line view of owners and managers. The results are an expansion of entertainment news, infomercials and synergistic news – all aimed at increased profit taking.”

Additionally, Phillips said the 11 largest or most influential media corporations in the United States – General Electric Company (NBC), Viacom Inc. (cable), The Walt Disney Company (ABC), Time Warner Inc.(CNN), Westinghouse Electric Corporation (CBS), The News Corporation Ltd. (Fox), Gannett Co. Inc., Knight-Ridder Inc., New York Times Co., Washington Post Co. and the Times Mirror Co. – represent the interests of corporate America, and that the media elite are the watchdogs of acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content and the general use of media resources.

“Do the media elite directly censor the news?” Phillips asks.

“Without being privy to insider conversations, it is difficult to prove direct censorship by management of particular stories in the news. But an organizational tendency is to comply with the general corporate culture, and career-minded journalists and editors sharing this common corporate culture will create what direct censorship cannot: a general compliance with the attitudes, wishes, and expectations of the media elite and, in turn, corporate America.”

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  1. 25 Responses to “Project Censored”

  2. By brutus301 on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    A truly educated …
    A truly educated informed individual would come to the conclusion that politics in general is a complete farce. The concept of right and left wing are illusions that we have a choice.

  3. By Waltham1892 on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    Isn’t a book on …
    Isn’t a book on censorship an oxymoron?

  4. By borisbmx on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    this old game of …
    this old game of deceit began in early 20th century simplified : yiddish askenazi zionist jewish media bosses.

  5. By acrazedmaniac on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    thanks, just …
    thanks, just ordered 08 and 07 from amazon as you were talking…love the information age…..

  6. By frankensteinmoneymac on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    naw….no prob. …
    naw….no prob. Well said. I watched an interview recently about voting fraud. He claimed that many on both sides have rigged the electronic voting machines for years. He especialy said the Bush camp did it a lot….and when he tried to bring it up back then no 1 would not believe anyone could or would do such a thing. Now he is being taken much more seriously, esp. after Al Gore Vs Bush election. He backed up evrything with lots of evedence as well. Wish I could remember D guys name, very int.

  7. By acorntechnique on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    The power elite who …
    The power elite who control this world – made up of the top bankers, media corporations, energy companies, oil magnets and so forth have an agenda which they intend to follow at all costs and the votes, poles and opinions of us mere ‘citizens,’ isn’t going to deter them one iota.
    I’m sorry, I got a bit carried away here and went off on a bit of a tangent. I’m sure you know all this anyway

  8. By acorntechnique on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    And to add weight …
    And to add weight to the argument that voting poles are more often than not rigged as Peter Philips is suggesting in this video consider this:

    The vast majority of people in any nation are totally ill-equipped to choose a leader and government. They are unable to spawn any realistic informed opinions
    because they are constantly fed propaganda bullcrap by the very governments they chose to elect.

    And this cycle goes around and around never ending…

  9. By acorntechnique on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    And to be clear on …
    And to be clear on what we mean by better education, that doesn’t refer solely to academia, it refers primarily to self education.
    As we both know, most people are very self opinionated, and certainly there are no shortage of such folk here on YouTube, yet they rarely hold a base for their opinions.
    For some insane reason, such people prefer to expound nonsense without basis, then become offended when others fail to take their ideas seriously.

  10. By acorntechnique on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    ‘Better education …
    ‘Better education more than anything leads to less ignorance.’
    My point exactly

  11. By frankensteinmoneymac on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    Which in turn more …
    Which in turn more often than not leads people to becoming more left wing! LOL!! Its no coincidence why right wingers are always talking about the “liberal intelectual types” with disdain……However if you were saying (which I think was perhaps your point) that Left Wngz are not more inteligent than Right Wingz…..simply more educated…..then I would have to agree. Better education more than anything leads to less ignorance.

  12. By acorntechnique on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    Your statement is …
    Your statement is interesting but not quite correct.
    Educated people don’t become more left wing. Educated people read and study. Reading and studying leads to better informed opinions. Better informed opinions often leads to discovery.

  13. By claymodeling1 on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    This outfit was …
    This outfit was formed in 1976, right? Now we have the internet, basically little or no censorship, but 99% of the information is bullshit. Newspapers are going broke, because they were charging for their 99% bullshit.

  14. By Navywxman on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    This guy ‘golfpro’ …
    This guy ‘golfpro’ loves thinking with his ass

  15. By golfprobro4eagles on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    This guy loves …
    This guy loves blowing liberal smoke up your ass.

  16. By kylaving on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    talos1964 stop …
    talos1964 stop crying, sure europe will always be thankfull for liberation from the nazis, but sjees that doesnt make the US immune for crisism, also dont confuse Anti Bush with Anti american sentiment. “The land of the free” remarks are missguided and very open to debate. chill out dude

  17. By 1aaronaaron1 on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    and you invaded …
    and you invaded Iraq because you wanted to free the people right?

  18. By frankensteinmoneymac on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    Huh, strange that …
    Huh, strange that the more educated people get the more left wing they become…..Maybe left wingers are simply more inteligent than the redneck rush limbaugh ditto heads whos main arguements are against those “liberal college professor know-it-alls”. Well there are those types, then there are the ones who are rich and just want to get richer & truley dont care about the truth or liberty, most of them actually are smart, & they need and army of stupid right wingers to keep them in power.

  19. By tommysch on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    How can this be …
    How can this be censored since i am seeing it?

  20. By talos1964 on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    hey you …
    hey you assholes, americans are not stupid anymore. we were isolationists. what the did your cunt-ry do to stop the Nazis, Communists, Pol Pot, the Serbs (who were killing muslims). You do nothing to help anyone, and condemn anyone who tries to help. Hussien invaded Kuwait, you said nothing. We liberated Kuwait, and you say we did it for oil. Well it went up to $4 a gallon here. Oh yeah, we didnt occupy Kuwait… Communists killed +20 million, yet we were wrong to oppose them…

  21. By ray1351 on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    internet is …
    internet is somthing made by users this dude is talking about big name companys on tv like bbc, cnn etc..

  22. By talos1964 on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    It’s censored? You …
    It’s censored? You mean this video doesnt exist? No wonder I’ve never heard anything anti-bush or anti-american on the internet…

  23. By saadasim on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    UK – JAIL FOR …
    UK – JAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHING POLICE!
    watch?v=pQEPwxf4nPM

    FOX News Whistle blowers. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
    watch?v=trWcqxrQgcc

  24. By 0E788CA5 on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    Where is this …
    Where is this coming from??

  25. By 879twist on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    who still believes …
    who still believes in the NEWS ?? only blind fools

  26. By Srekwah on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply

    This guy has it 180 …
    This guy has it 180 degrees out of whack – but I think that’s the whole point of this vid. The insecure left are professional trait projectors they can’t help it and to cover their own they accuse their opposites of everything they themselves are majorly guilty of – you can do that when you have no ethics or morals and don’t believe in anything except power.

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