Censored 2003 : the top 25 censored stories / Peter Phillips & Project Censored ; introduction by Robert W. McChesney ; cartoons by Tom Tomorrow.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : London : Seven Stories ; Turnaround, 2002Description: 399 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1583225153
- 9781583225158
- Censored two thousand and three
- Censored two thousand three
- 909.83 21
- 323.445 22
- PN4888.P6 C457 2002
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 323.445 CEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A265174B | ||
Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 323.445 CEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A265426B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Top Censored stories of 2001 & 2002 / Peter Phillips and Project Censored -- FCC moves to privatize airwaves -- New trade treaty seeks to privatize global social services -- United States' policies in Colombia support mass murder -- Bush administration hampered FBI investigation 46 into Bin Laden family before 9-11 -- U.S. intentionally destroyed Iraq's water system -- U.S. government pushing nuclear revival -- Corporations promote HMO model for school districts -- NAFTA destroys farming communities in U.S. and abroad -- U.S. faces national housing crisis -- CIA double deals in Macedonia -- Bush appoints former criminals to key government roles -- NAFTA's chapter 11 overrides public protection laws of countries --
Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford lied to the American public about East Timor -- New laws restrict access to abortions in U.S. -- Bush's energy plan threatens environment and public health -- CIA kidnaps suspects for overseas torture and execution -- Corporate media ignores key issues of anti-globalization protests -- World's coral reefs dying -- American companies exploit the Congo -- Novartis's gene research endangers global plant life -- Large U.S. temp company undermines union jobs and mistreats workers -- Fish farms threaten health of consumers and aquatic habitats -- Horses face lives of unnecessary abuse for drug company profits -- Wal-Mart takes union busting to the state level -- Federal government bails out failing private prisons --
Ch. 2. 9-11 Before and beyond: a critical analysis / Peter Phillips, Tom Lough, Robert Hackett, Karen Talbot, Project Censored -- Ch. 3. Censored Déjà Vu: what happened to last year's most censored stories / Peter Phillips, Project Censored -- Ch. 4. Junk food news and news abuse / Krista Arata, Kathleen O'Rourke-Christopher -- Ch. 5. Rebuild democracy with grassroots community news / Peter Phillips, Project Censored -- Ch. 6. The Big Ten Media giants / Mark Crispin Miller -- Ch. 7. Media war and the rigors of self-censorship / Norman Solomon -- Ch. 8. Power sources: on party, gender, race, and class, TV news looks to the most powerful groups / Ina Howard -- Ch. 9. Truth about Afghan civilian casualties comes only through American lenses for the U.S. corporate media [Our modern-day Didymus] / Marc W. Herold -- Ch. 10. Leave no child untested: how New York State exams censored literature / Jeanne Heifetz.
Exposes major news stories ignored by the press in 2001 and 2002.
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