Time again for the annual list of news stories ignored by the mainstream press. I’ve listed the topics, so you’ll have to click through to the story to read the details.
Project Censored Media Democracy in Action
#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media (net neutrality)
#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
#3 Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
#4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
#5 High-Tech Genocide in Congo
#6 Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
#7 US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq
#8 Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
#9 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
#10 Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians
#11 Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed
#12 Pentagon Plans to Build New Landmines
#13 New Evidence Establishes Dangers of Roundup
#14 Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US
#15 Chemical Industry is EPA’s Primary Research Partner
#16 Ecuador and Mexico Defy US on International Criminal Court
#17 Iraq Invasion Promotes OPEC Agenda
#18 Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story
#19 Destruction of Rainforests Worst Ever
#20 Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem
#21 Gold Mining Threatens Ancient Andean Glaciers
#22 $Billions in Homeland Security Spending Undisclosed
#23 US Oil Targets Kyoto in Europe
#24 Cheney’s Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year
#25 US Military in Paraguay Threatens Region
Yikes. Looks like we’re all going to get killed before we even have a chance to all die.
When you allow all of your media to be owned and operated by a very small group of super-wealthy persons, what else would you expect?
They expect – and direct – the media to support their various other financial enterprises and the financial enterprises of their friends, families and purchased politicians.
Writing negative stories about some topics – or any story at all about other topics – could hurt profits and is therefore verboten. From their point of view, this makes perfect sense.
After all, they sure didn’t get into the media business to make more profits – they already have enough of those and media is just not that profitable, compared to other enterprises.
Several times I’ve heard media owners flatly state: “the news is just something to fill in all the empty spaces surrounding the advertisements.” When you look at the news like that, leaving things out, important or not, is meaningless.
With such attitudes, why would anyone expect anything different from what they are receiving?
What a bunch of BS!
These topics have been covered extensively throughout the mainstream press. The coverage has been non-stop on all these subjects.
This is one of the lamest stories I’ve ever seen.
I would just like to add one, but there are others.
24. The deathbed confession of E Howard Hunt and LBJ connection to JFK murder.
3. I read and watch the news constantly and can honestly say your full of shit.
Some of these are interesting, but Project Censored destroys its credibility when they include the ridiculous 9/11 conspiracy theories, which have it that the WTC collapsed for reasons far different from the official ones (including, possibly, prepositioned explosives, presumably placed by gov’t agents wearing “Matrix” style sunglasses).
What a shame. And some debunkings of these 9/11 myths have been aired on TV and in print. They’ve only been “censored” because they’re just not credible. Millions of people have watched “documentaries” on this subject on YouTube and seem to buy the BS, which tells you all you need to know about YouTube’s demographics.
I dunno. I think about half of these stories were well-covered the other half are more obscure. But you would think the Howard Hunt deathbed confession would be on there.
I’ll bet we could come up with an even better list if we tried.
every item on that list requires more than 30 seconds to explain — it ain’t censorship, it’s that people refuse news that takes to much to understand.
people on this list are in the minority, even the people i disagree with are well-read
the general public wants only to be told:
that they’re good if they follow just 10 simple rules
that america is great
what the latest celebrity gossip is
beyond that, the average joe simply doesn’t care.
Fred Flint – News Corp (Fox), Time Warner (CNN), ABC, CBS and GE (NBC/MSNBC) are all publicly-traded corporations. They are owned by millions of individual shareholders, and indirectly by millions more mutual fund shareholders and participants in pension plans, NOT by “a very small group of super-wealthy persons”.
Sorry, should have made it clear that ABC is owned by Disney.
#24 Cheney’s Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year
Not reported… because it didn’t happen.
Halliburton stock actually DECLINED between January 2006 and January 2007.
And none of the previous 5 years did Halliburton stock experience a 100 percent increase, let alone a 3000 percent increase.
Obviously the news you see/hear/read is very selective. Most news services are looking for ratings.
My wife listens to the police/emt radio frequencies locally. You would be amazed at the things that happen that are never reported in the news.
From the list:
Put the WhistleBlower guy (#6) into the Detention Camp (#14), force him to Eat vat-grown-beef (#11) and Drink Evian (#20) copiously…
That’s a great set of liberal talking points, however. Nice job.
You all need to stop kidding yourself and pretending to be shocked. I would have thought that nobody less than William Randolph Hurst would have taught us that there is nothing especially sacred about the profession of journalism. Reporting “The News” has been as much about entertainment and agendas as it has been about spreading useful information for as long as printers have been applying ink to movable type.
15. I dont think anyone here is pretending to be shocked. Pissed maybe, not shocked.
There are certainly some valid stories there that the pluto-theo-corporatist regime would prefer go unexamined by the populace, no question about it.
But James Hill has a point; they’re obviously all liberal causes. There’s nothing there about even one issue that discomfits or embarasses the hard-left PC Marxists, who have equal power in media, and are every bit as unscrupulous as their counterparts.
In today’s media, the bunch in the boardroom watch out for their chosen friends and benefactors, as do those in the newsroom. Both sides think it’s OK to slant reportage, because they all know that their side alone is right.
Anything like this, that promotes the ludicrous concept that either political wing has a monopoly on suppression of inconvenient facts, is propaganda, and therefore dishonest.
What I’m saying is, it doesn’t make a goddam bit of difference whether they’re PCers or paleoconservatives, they’re all ideologues and therefore enemies of truth and freedom.
And who do we have to blame?
The media? Nooooo..
The Republicans? Nooooo..
Halliburton’s connections with the White House? Noooo..
Then who do we have to blame?
The people who would rather see a censored image of pantyless Britney Spears on Entertainment Tonight than hear a 20 minute report about why gas prices are soaring.
#18 – If only we could harness the power of the crabs in her crotch, we could power the world.
Why does everyone see a conspiracy when it just is media over load. I mean come on do any of you know people smart enough and depraved enough to think they can ” rule the world”. The interesting thing to me is that comic book writers make a living on this kind of thinking and then when it is used to justify what people think are conspiracies in the real world no one noticies the parallels?
#19
I thought her crotch was barren and devoid of any bush that could protect them.
Most of these “stories” would go no-where anyway. Some are just flat out wrong. Others are pure opinion and lack actual facts to back them up. Some were covered but had no interest.
I think most of the list is probably left wing agenda – conspiracy crap.
9. Funk IBC –
Fred Flint – News Corp (Fox), Time Warner (CNN), ABC, CBS and GE (NBC/MSNBC) are all publicly-traded corporations. They are owned by millions of individual shareholders, and indirectly by millions more mutual fund shareholders and participants in pension plans, NOT by “a very small group of super-wealthy persons”.
OK Funk, as a stockholder in several of those corporations, I demand ‘my employees’ cover those items and write feature stories about them, either positive or negative!
So, what do you think of my chances for success? If you added your votes, that will be two of us, which is easily enough people to start a revolution. What do ya think? Shall we wield our mighty power of the $?
Are we sure this isn’t last year’s list? I remember “net neutrality” being way up there — I work with Hands Off the Internet (skeptical of NN, definitely opposed to the idiotic Dorgan-Snowe bill) so I’d remember.
Besides, Mother Jones already declared Project Censored dead 7 years ago — The Unbearable Lameness of Project Censored. Nothing in their stories is actually *censored* — the Project just doesn’t think these stories got enough coverage. Only they have the ideological arrogance to play the victim card. The fact that “net neutrality” ranks higher than genocide or Iran or anything from the Pentagon is reason enough to kick this list to the curb.