Monday, December 3, 2012

The Censored News

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 48 -- December 3, 2012


This week in New World Notes, radio program #248, December 4, 2012

The Censored News


Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored, gives an impassioned speech about how the media support Established Power--by producing news stories that are biased, censored, and full of omissions and false assumptions. And by suppressing news stories that would call official policies into question.

Complementing Huff's talk, we'll read selections from Project Censored's top stories of 2011-2012--seemingly-important stories unreported by the corporate media. One example: fallout from Fukishima caused 14,000 deaths in the U.S.

Plus introductory coments (and a very recent eample of censored news) by K.D.


Above: Historian, media critic, and Director of Project Censored, Mickey Huff

Notes, credits, & links

Huff spoke in September 2012. I have shortened his speech for this radio broadcast. A video of the entire speech is available at www.projectcensored.org. Summaries of the Top 25 Censored Stories of the year are available there too.

In my introduction I discuss a very recent censored story about child casualties in Afghanistan--recently brought to light by independent journalist Dave Lindorff. His article is here: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/18/children-under-attack-in-pakistan-and-afghanistan/

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Series overview:
Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.


Back in September 2011, the news media did their best to ignore Occupy Wall Street. Afterwards, they disparaged it. Finally, they were forced to take it seriously.

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • December 11 -- Michael Ruppert on Surviving the Collapse
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