Fake news is not a new thing, and the new edition of Project Censored selections – the list of the year’s most important but unreported or under-reported stories – uses a reference to a 1938 fake news story as an illustration. The cover art for the latest Project Censored book, “Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake […]
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Project Censored, 2016-17
In America, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself, and limits on the power of government to restrict it. But the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in the aftermath of World War II, presents a broader framework. Article 19 reads, […]
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10 stories the media missed
From the illegal dumping of fracking waste water to popular resistance to corporate water-grabbing.
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Ocean acidification tops the annual list of important stories ignored by the mainstream media.
