Censored News: What Mass Media Don’t Want You To Know – Project Censored Reports

Information access is ostensibly a right that each of us has, and yet every year the mass media sweep important world news under the carpet in favor of sordid gossipy headlines and shady propaganda. Each year, however, Project Censored attempts to redress the balance. Photo credit: Pep So while mainstream news media focus their attention on the latest exploits of Paris Hilton and friends, Project Censored is busy noting and reporting on the important stories that never made it to prime time. And there are a lot of them. Project Censored is a Sonoma University-based initiative currently in its thirty-first year. Each year, twenty-five stories are selected from hundreds of possible candidates, and these stories are gathered and published by …