Contents

FINDING STRENGTH IN COMMUNITY by Gilda L. Ochoa

FOREWORD: Down the Rabbit Hole of “Media Literacy” by Decree by Sharyl Attkisson

INTRODUCTION by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth

CHAPTER 1: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2018–19

Compiled and edited by Andy Lee Roth

Introduction
Note on Research and Evaluation of Censored News Stories
1. Justice Department’s Secret FISA Rules for Targeting Journalists
2. Think Tank Partnerships Establish Facebook as Tool of US Foreign Policy
3. Indigenous Groups from Amazon Propose Creation of Largest Protected Area on Earth
4. US Oil and Gas Industry Set to Unleash 120 Billion Tons of New Carbon Emissions
5. “Modern Slavery” in the United States and around the World
6. Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Sex Trafficking Criminalized for Self-Defense
7. Flawed Investigations of Sexual Assaults in Children’s Immigrant Shelters
8. US Women Face Prison Sentences for Miscarriages
9. Developing Countries’ Medical Needs Unfulfilled by Big Pharma
10. Pentagon Aims to Surveil Social Media to Predict Domestic Protests
11. Ukrainian Fascists Trained US White Supremacists
12. New 5G Network Spurs Health Concerns
13. Corporate Food Brands Drive Massive Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico
14. FBI Surveilled Peaceful Climate Change Protesters
15. Trump Administration Threatens Endangered Species Act
16. Underwater Avalanches Heighten Risks of Oil Catastrophes
17. More Than 25 Percent of Formerly Incarcerated People are Unemployed
18. Humanitarian Groups Promote Solutions to Extreme Violence in West Africa
19. Censorship of Al Jazeera Documentary Exposes Influence of Pro-Israel Lobby
20. Scientists Accelerate Coral Reef Regrowth with Electricity
21. Court Ruling Provides “Blueprint” to Reform Excessive, Discriminatory Policing in Schools
22. Violence Rises after End of Mandated Monitoring in California’s Juvenile Detention Centers
23. New Programs Make School Food Systems More Equitable
24. Class Explains Millennials’ “Stunted” Economic Lives
25. Google Screenwise: Consenting to Surveillance Capitalism

CHAPTER 2: “Curiouser and Curiouser”: A Mad Hatter’s Tea Party of Junk Food News

by Izzy Snow and Susan Rahman, with William Cohen, James Giusti, Brandon Grayson, Grace Kyle, Shania Martin, Juweria Mehtar, Mariya Mulla, Carla Naylor, Melissa Reed, Vinca Rivera-Perez, Aria Schwartz, Lakhvir Singh, and Haley Skinner

CHAPTER 3: Comforting the Powerful, Ignoring the Afflicted: News Abuse in 2018–2019

by John Collins, Nicole Eigbrett, Jana Morgan, and Steve Peraza

CHAPTER 4: Media Democracy in Action

with contributions by Kathryn Foxhall (Society of Professional Journalists), Russ Kick (AltGov2), Matthew Crain and Anthony Nadler (Data & Society), Brendan DeMelle and Ashley Braun (DeSmogBlog), Alexandra Bradbury (Labor Notes), and Aaron Delwiche and Mary Margaret Herring (Propaganda Critic); edited and introduced by Steve Macek

CHAPTER 5: What’s Burning?

written by Adam Bessie and illustrated by Marc Parenteau

CHAPTER 6: Kashmir Uncensored: Tortured by the World’s Largest Democracy

by Ifat Gazia and Tara Dorabji

CHAPTER 7: Stonewalled: Establishment Media’s Silence on the Trump Administration’s Crusade against LGBTQ People

by April Anderson and Andy Lee Roth

CHAPTER 8: “Fake News”: The Trojan Horse for Silencing Alternative News and Reestablishing Corporate News Dominance

by Emil Marmol and Lee Mager

CHAPTER 9: Our Collective Crisis and Constructive Journalism—Growing the Good and Possible

by Kenn Burrows, Amber Yang, and Bethany Surface

Acknowledgments

How to Support Project Censored

About the Editors

Index