Censorship is alive and well in America -- and resisted every spring with the annual publication of the previous year's top 25 censored stories. Mainstream media's downward-spiraling standards have made Censored books a crucial tool for keeping the American public educated and informed. This year's edition includes Ed Herman on liberals betraying their values in U.S. foreign policy, Michel Chossudovsky on propaganda, and Robin Andersen on the independent media movement. Also featured is "News Abuse," a survey of the most overcovered and least newsworthy stories that clogged the airwaves.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
missing the mainstream of interests:
I have been picking up these books for the last eight years. It is amazing what the mainstream media considers news and what they miss and ignore as news, thus they are missing the mainstream of interests of the American public or what should be the interests of the public. Instead, the mainstream goes after fluff and disasters news that is inoffensive to the corporate/business interest of this nation and does not reflect reality of public interest. If CENSORED ever published a nation-wide newspaper, along... more info
The importance of alternative news outlets:
This book is more important now than ever. As we sit with our eyes glued to the coverage of the "War" in Afghanistan, it is crucial that we observe the mainstream media with the awareness of how many years they have manipulated, lied, and deceived the American people. We cannot have a true democracy, we cannot make informed choices, we cannot live authentic lives when so much crucial information is kept from us because we don't, for whatever reason, "deserve" to know. Now, more than ever, it's important to... more info
A very complicated hodge podge...:
This one is really hard to review. Kind of like trying to write a review of a newspaper combined with a news magazine combined with some essays combined with a rulebook... And it doesn't really fit clearly into any of those categories. Many of the articles were written in the style of newspaper articles, though with longer term perspectives. Others were clearly more like you'd see in a magazine, except for the lack of illustrations. The essays wandered through various venues and styles, but I'm not even... more info
Great introduction:
If you're new to this kind of stuff, this book would definitely serve as a great introduction.
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