Project Censored
For its 25th Anniversary, Project Censored has just posted to the web its list of the top 25 censored Media Stories of 2001.
This year the report has an introduction from Noam Chomsky looking back at a quarter of a century of censored news.
Laura Conaway and James Ridgeway look at the discrimination against black voters in Florida, there is a chapter on the history of Junk food News by Carl Jensen and a host of excellent essays by other authors.
This is clearly an area where the internet is unparalleled in its usefulness. The site is well laid out and has a searchable archive of stories.
Just to whet your appetite a review of some of 2001’s 25 top censored stories:
No. 3: U.S. Army’s Psychological Operations Personnel Worked at CNN
No. 4: Did the U.S. Deliberately Bomb the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade?
No. 6: International Report Blames U.S. and Others for Genocide in Rwanda
No.7: Independent Study Points to Dangers of Genetically Altered Foods (Dismissed by Media and Biotech Industry)
No. 11: United Nations Corporate Partnerships—A Human Rights Peril
No. 12: Cuba Leads the World in Organic Farming
No. 13: The World Trade Organization is an Illegal Institution
No. 15: Gerber Uses the WTO to Suppress Laws that Promote Breastfeeding
No. 16: Human Genome Project Opens the Door to Ethnically Specific Bioweapens
No. 17: IMF and World Bank Staff Tightly Connected to New Yugoslav Government
No. 18: Indigenous People Challenge Private Ownership and Patenting of Life
No.19: U.S. Using Dangerous Fungus to Eradicate Coca Plants in Colombia
No. 21: U.S Military Bombing Range Destroys Korean Village Life
No. 22: U.S. Government Repressed Marijuana-Tumor Research
No. 23: Very Small Levels of Chemical Exposures Can be Dangerous
No. 24: Pentagon Seeks Mega-Mergers Between International Arms Corporations
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