Censored 2010 : the top 25 censored stories / Censored twenty ten edited by Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff ; with Project Censored ; introduction by Dahr Jamail ; cartoons by Khalil Bendib. - A Seven Stories Press 1st edition. - xiv, 418 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The top censored stories of 2008 and 2009 / Peter Phillips, Tricia Boreta, and Project Censored -- Introduction : Die, newspapers die: the dailies really died a generation ago, and now their corpses are following suit / Michael I. Niman -- US Congress sells out to Wall Street -- US schools are more segregated today than in the 1950s -- Toxic waste behind Somali pirates -- Nuclear waste pools in North Carolina -- Europe blocks US toxic products -- Business booms for lobbyists -- Obama's military appointments have corrupt past -- Bailed out banks and America's wealthiest cheat IRS out of billions -- US arms used for war crimes in Gaza -- Ecuador declares foreign debt illegitimate -- Private corporations profit from the occupation of Palestine -- Mysterious death of Mike Connell, Karl Rove's election thief -- Katrina's hidden race war -- Congress invested in defense contracts -- World Bank's carbon trade fiasco -- US repression of Haiti continues -- The ICC facilitates US covert war in Sudan -- Ecuador's constitutional rights of nature -- Bank bailout recipients spent to defeat labor -- Secret control of the presidential debates -- Recession causes states to cut welfare -- Obama's Trilateral Commission team -- Activists slam World Water Forum as a corporate-driven fraud -- Dollar glut finances US military expansion -- Fast track oil exploitation in western Amazon -- Censored déjà vu: what happened to previous censored stories / Ben Frymer, Kate Sims, and Project Censored -- Infotainment society: junk food news and news abuse for 2008/2009 / Mickey Huff, Frances A. Capell, and Project Censored -- Signs of health: stories of hope and change from 2008/2009 / Kate Sims and Yes! Magazine -- Truth emergency: inside the military-industrial media empire / Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff -- Lying about war: deliberate propaganda and spin by the Pentagon / Diane Fasetta [and others] -- Fear & favor: fairness and accuracy in reporting / Peter Hart -- Index on censorship / Jo Glanville -- The hyperreality of a failing corporate media system / Andrew Hobbs and Peter Phillips -- Analysis of Project Censored: are we a left-leaning conspiracy-oriented organization? / Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff -- Election 2008: vanishing votes, disappearing democracy, and media misdirection / Brad Friedman -- Expanding investigative research for independent media and human betterment / Peter Phillips -- No "Pretty woman": human trafficking and domestic prostitution reconsidered / Aashika N. Damodar -- Water as commodity or commons? Issues from the 2009 World Water Forum / Andrew L. Roth -- Lesbian and gay standpoint films / James Dean.

In addition to highlighting the twenty-five most important underreported news stories, Censored 2010 includes in-depth essays on select issues, plus updates on previous years' censored stories and the "junk food" stories that get all the coverage. An invaluable alternative media resource.

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History, Modern--21st century
Reportage literature, American
Censorship--United States
Journalism--Political aspects--United States
Television broadcasting of news--United States
Freedom of the press--United States

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