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| motto = The News That Didn't Make the News |
| motto = The News That Didn't Make the News |
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| type = [[Nonprofit organization|501(C)(3) nonprofit organization]] |
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| founded = 1976 |
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| location = [[Rohnert Park, California]], [[United States]] |
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| key_people = Mickey Huff<br>Director |
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| Founded | 1976 |
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| Type | 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization |
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| Fields | Journalism and Media |
Key people | Mickey Huff Director |
| Website | www.projectcensored.org |
Project Censored is a media research, education, and advocacy initiative started at Sonoma State University in 1976. It is currently housed at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California. Project Censored was founded by Carl Jensen to expose censorship in propaganda and mass media. The current director is Mickey Huff.[1] Among its journalistic activities is the publication of news stories omitted or significantly under-reported by other media sources.[2]
Reception
Walter Cronkite said that "Project Censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasting outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism".[3]
The founder of the progressive news analysis and commentary website AlterNet criticized Project Censored as "stuck in the past" with a "dubious selection process" that "reinforces self-marginalizing, defeatist behavior".[4] It has also been criticized for reporting on stories which are arguably not "under-reported" or "censored" at all,[5] as they have sometimes appeared in the New York Times and other high-profile publications.
Some of these claims come from other progressive publications, such as AlterNet, Mother Jones, and New Politics that are concerned that the Project's mis-reporting will give the progressive movement and its alternative media less credibility. For example, Project Censored has been criticized for consistently downplaying Serbian atrocities in Bosnia and Kosovo,[6] for exaggerating the dangers of the Cassini-Huygens space probe to Saturn,[7] and for giving support to 9/11 conspiracy theories.[8]
Professor Robert Jensen and journalist Norman Solomon resigned from Project Censored's panel of national judges over the decision to highlight the 9/11 conspiracy theories of Steven E. Jones, a founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, in Censored 2007.[9]
In a debate with Project Censored's Associate Director Mark Lowenthal, Jack Shafer wrote that Project Censored had "an overbearing left-wing bias -- a fact belied by its refusal to review stories from the right-wing or conservative press, the openly partisan nature of the stories that are selected and the leftist panel of judges who help select them."[10]
List of winners of Project Censored awards
- Joel Bleifuss, Steve Freeman, and Josh Mitteldorf for their work uncovering electronic corruption of the vote count in Federal elections in America
- Lisa Gale Garrigues, 2004
- Dave Lindorff, 2004
- Rock Creek Free Press, 2008
See also
References
- ^ Huff, Mickey; Roth, Andy Lee (October 7, 2014). Censored 2015: Inspiring We the People. New York/Oakland: Seven Stories Press. p. 11. ISBN 1609805658.
- ^ "Project Censored Media Democracy in Action: About Us". Project Censored. Archived from the original on 2006-12-19. Retrieved 2006-12-22.
- ^ "Censored 2004: The Top 25 Censored Stories". Powell's Books.
- ^ Don Hazen (2000-04-01). "Beyond Project Censored: It's time for a new award". AlterNet. Retrieved 2007-02-04.
- ^ Brooke Shelby Biggs (2000-04-11). "The Unbearable Lameness of Project Censored". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2007-01-31.
- ^ David Walls (2002). "How Project Censored Joined The Whitewash of Serb Atrocities". New Politics. Archived from the original on 2006-10-16. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
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Lynn Cominsky, Phil Plait, and David Walls (2004-10-03). "With Cassini's Orbit, Science Trumps Ignorance". Albion Monitor. Retrieved 2007-01-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Paul Payne (2006-11-04). "There's that other theory on 9/11: SSU hosts discredited academic who says U.S. could have planned attack". The Press Democrat. Archived from the original on 2007-01-09. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ C.D. Stelzer (June 28, 2007). "Over the Line: Two Judges Quit Project Censored to Protest 9/11 Story". Illinois Times. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Mark Lowenthal (1996-05-27). "Unclear on the Concept (Part II)". Albion Monitor. Retrieved 2006-12-23.