"[Censored] should be affixed to the bulletin boards in every newsroom in America. And, perhaps, read aloud to a few publishers and television executives."--RALPH NADER
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 more in-depth analysis.
Author(s): Mickey Huff
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 278
Tags: Censorship; Corruption; Propaganda; Journalism; Post-Truth Dystopia: Fake News, Alternative Facts
FOREWORD: Sifting and Winnowing in the “Post-Truth” Era by Deepa Kumar
INTRODUCTION: by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff
CHAPTER 1: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2016–17
Compiled and edited by Andy Lee Roth
CHAPTER 2: Post-Truth Dystopia: Fake News, Alternative Facts, and the Ongoing War on Reality—Junk Food News and News Abuse for 2016–17
by Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff, with student writers and researchers Aimee Casey, Gabriella Custodio, Elsa Denis, Thomas Field, Alisha Huajardo, Justin Lascano, Aubrey Sanchez, Edwin Sevilla, Hannah Soule, Kelly Van Boekhout, Kristen van Zyll de Jong, Michael Vega, Clark Venter, and Mark Yolangco
CHAPTER 3: Media Democracy in Action
introduction by Andy Lee Roth, with contributions by Rachael Jolley (Index on Censorship), Chase Palmieri (Tribeworthy), Mahsood Ebrahim and Julianne Rodriguez (Citrus College), Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek (Unauthorized Disclosure), and Gennie Gebhart (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
CHAPTER 4: The New American Authoritarianism: How the Corporate Media Normalized Racism in 2016
by Nolan Higdon and Nicholas L. Baham III
CHAPTER 5: Trump Universe
words by Adam Bessie and pictures by Peter Glanting
CHAPTER 6: Defamation as Censorship in the Social-Media Era: Who Counts as a Media Defendant?
by Elizabeth Blakey
CHAPTER 7: Still Manufacturing Consent: The Propaganda Model at Thirty
by Edward S. Herman
CHAPTER 8: Breaking Through Power: Mass Media Blacks Out the Super Bowl of Citizen Action
by Ralph Nader
Acknowledgments
Annual Report from the Media Freedom Foundation President
by Mickey Huff
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