TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phillips,Peter
AU  - Roth,Andrew Lee
TI  - Censored 2009: the top 25 censored stories of 2008 
SN  - 1583228527
AV  - PN4888.P6 C46 2008
U1  - 323.445 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Seven Stories
KW  - Censorship
KW  - United States
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Television broadcasting of news
KW  - Freedom of the press
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - 1945-1989
KW  - Reportage literature, American
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Dedication: To Barbara Seaman -- Preface -- Introduction: Project Censored addresses truth in America / Cynthia McKinney -- Ch.1: The top censored stories of 2007 and 2008 / by Tricia Boreta and Project Censored -- 1. Over one million Iraqi deaths caused by US occupation -- 2. Security and prosperity partnership: militarized NAFTA -- 3. InfraGard: the FBI deputizes business -- 4. ILEA: is the US restarting dirty wars in Latin America? -- 5. Seizing war protestors' assets -- 6. The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act -- 7. Guest Workers Inc.: fraud and human trafficking -- 8. Executive orders can be changed secretly -- 9. Iraq and Afghanistan vets testify -- 10. APA complicit in CIA torture -- 11. El Salvadors's water privatization and the global war on terror -- 12. Bush profiteers collect billions from No Child Left Behind -- 13. Tracking billions of dollars lost in Iraq -- 14. Mainstreaming nuclear waste -- 15. Worldwide slavery -- 16. Annual survey on trade union rights -- 17. UN's empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights -- 18. Cruelty and death in juvenile detention centers -- 19. Indigenous herders and small farmers fight livestock extinction -- 20. Marijuana arrests set new record -- 21. NATO considers "first strike" nuclear option -- 22. CARE rejects US food aid -- 23. FDA complicit in pushing pharmaceutical drugs -- 24. Japan questions 9/11 and the global war on terror -- 25. Bush's real problem with Eliot Spitzer -- Censored 2008 honorable mentions -- Ch.2: Censored déjà vu: what happened to previous censored stories / Peter Phillips and Project Censored -- Ch.3: Junk food news and news abuse / Kate Sims, Luke Plasse, April Pearce, Melissa Willenborg, and Margo Tyack -- Ch.4: The news is good!: stories of hope and change from 2007 and 2008 / edited by Kate Sims and the people of Yes! magazine -- Ch.5: Oiling the dangerous engine of arbitrary government: newspaper coverage of the Military Commissions Act / Andrew Roth, with Sarah Maddox and Kaitlyn Pinson -- Ch.6: Universal healthcare, media and the 2008 presidential campaign / Peter Phillips, Kat Pat Crespán, Carmela Rocha, Corey Sharp Sabatino, and Bridget Thornton -- Ch.7: US media bias, human rights, and the Hamas government in Gaza / Janeen Rashmawi, Nelson Calderon, Sarah Maddox, Christina Long, Andrew Hobbs, and Peter Phillips -- Ch.8: The Gardasil sell job / Judith Siers-Poisson, associate director, Center for Media & Democracy & PR Watch -- Ch.9: Fear & favor 2007: how power still shapes the news / Janine Jackson and Peter Hart -- Ch.10: Index on censorship 2007-2008 / Padraig Reidy -- Ch.11: Truth emergency meets media reform / Peter Phillips, Mickey S. Huff, Carmela Rocha, Andrew Hobbs, April Pearce, Kat Pat Crespán, Nelson Calderon, and David Kubiak -- Ch.12: Winter soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan -- eyewitness accounts of the occupations / Elizabeth Stinson -- Ch.13: The Pentagon's child recruiting strategy / Gary Evans, MD -- Ch.14: Deconstructing deceit: 9/11, the media, and myth information / Mickey S. Huff and Paul W. Rea -- Ch.15: Thirty-three years of US military domination and economic deception / Nelson Calderon
N2  - Exposes major news stories ignored by the press in the past year
ER  -