Censored 2001: The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories

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The stories detailed in CENSORED 2001 stands in stark contrast to what you see on the nightly news or read in newspapers. With the consolidation of media ownership, the steady decline in the quality of news reporting, and decrease in the number of people committed to bringing important and accurate news to the public, the need for this acclaimed media resource is greater than ever. CENSORED 2001 includes not only news stories ignored by the mainstream media, but also: * News Abuse - an annual survey of the most overcovered and least newsworthy stories that took up valuable press time at the expense of real substantive news. * Censored De-ja Vu - previous censored stories that have since received media coverage. * Censored Resource Guide - a directory of alternative media and organisations. * Censored Reprints - the top ten stories reprinted in their entirety.

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"Censored should be affixed to the bulletin boards in every newsroom in the country." - Ralph Nader

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Peter Phillips is the director of Project Censored and an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State University, where he teaches classes in media censorship, power, class stratification, and social welfare. Project Censored was founded in 1976 in an effort to determine the important issues that had been systematically neglected or omitted entirely be the mass media, and to stimulate journalists and editors to provide increased coverage.