Censored 2012: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010-11

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The bestselling Censored series - with over 150,000 copies in print - highlights the year's 25 most important underreported news stories, alerting readers to the negligence of corporate media and the resurgence of alternative media. Project Censored was founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen and has as its principal objective the advocacy for, and protection of, human rights and the freedom of information. Censored is an annual compilation with its finger on the pulse of topical news stories. Previous reporting has included important revelations on global warming,

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"Read this book, it will make you angry and then it will energize you to take on a significant societal problem in the New Year."-Ralph Nader

"[Censored] offers devastating evidence of the dumbing-down of mainstream news in America. . . . Required reading for broadcasters, journalists and well-informed citizens." -Los Angeles Times

"For the smart and courageous news manager, this annual report is a virtual road map for the coming year's news schedule."-Village Voice

"Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge this collection of suppressed stories allows us." -San Diego Review

"A distant early warning system for societys problems."-American Journalism Review

Author Bio

MICKEY HUFF is the director of Project Censored and an associate professor of history and social science at Diablo Valley College. PROJECT CENSORED, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen at Sonoma State University, has as its principal objective the advocacy for and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United States. In 2008, Project Censored received the PEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award for the publication of Censored 2009.