FOREWORD: Sifting and Winnowing in the “Post-Truth” Era by Deepa Kumar
INTRODUCTION: by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff
CHAPTER 1: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2016–17
Compiled and edited by Andy Lee Roth
Note on Research and Evaluation of Censored News Stories
1. Widespread Lead Contamination Threatens Children’s Health, and Could Triple Household Water Bills
2. Over Six Trillion Dollars in Unaccountable Army Spending
3. Pentagon Paid UK PR Firm for Fake Al-Qaeda Videos
4. Voter Suppression in the 2016 Presidential Election
5. Big Data and Dark Money behind the 2016 Election
6. Antibiotic Resistant “Superbugs” Threaten Health and Foundations of Modern Medicine
7. The Toll of US Navy Training on Wildlife in the North Pacific
8. Maternal Mortality a Growing Threat in the US
9. DNC Claims Right to Select Presidential Candidate
10. 2016: A Record Year for Global Internet Shutdowns
11. Law Enforcement Surveillance of Phone Records
12. US Quietly Established New “Anti-Propaganda” Center
13. Right-Wing Money Promotes Model Legislation to Restrict Free Speech on University Campuses
15. Shell Understood Climate Change as Early as 1991—and Ignored It
16. “Resilient” Indian Communities Struggle to Cope with Impacts of Climate Change
17. Young Plaintiffs Invoke Constitutional Grounds for Climate Protection
18. Rise in Number of Transgender People Murdered
19. Inmates and Activists Protest Chemical Weapons in US Prisons and Jails
20. Seattle Activist Group Leads First Successful Campaign to Defund Police
21. Fossil Fuel Industry “Colonizing” US Universities
23. Facebook Buys Sensitive User Data to Offer Marketers Targeted Advertising
24. Eight Use of Force Policies to Prevent Killings by Police
25. Juvenile Court Fees Punish Children for Their Families’ Poverty
CHAPTER 3: Media Democracy in Action
CHAPTER 4: The New American Authoritarianism: How the Corporate Media Normalized Racism in 2016
by Nolan Higdon and Nicholas L. Baham III
words by Adam Bessie and pictures by Peter Glanting
CHAPTER 6: Defamation as Censorship in the Social-Media Era: Who Counts as a Media Defendant?
CHAPTER 7: Still Manufacturing Consent: The Propaganda Model at Thirty
CHAPTER 8: Breaking Through Power: Mass Media Blacks Out the Super Bowl of Citizen Action
Annual Report from the Media Freedom Foundation President
by Mickey Huff