Contents
FOREWORD by Ralph Nader
INTRODUCTION by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff
The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2013–14
A NOTE ON RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF CENSORED NEWS STORIES
CENSORED 2015 HONORABLE MENTIONS
TOP 25 STORY ANALYSES: STORY CATEGORIES AND
HISTORICAL THEMES
CHAPTER 2: Déjà Vu
CHAPTER 3: Mea Culpa, Mi Amore: Sorry for All the Junk Food News and News Abuse . . . Now Here’s Some More by Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff, with contributions by Lauren Freeman, Alexandra Blair, Bryan Reid, Sam Park, Crystal Bedford, Emilee Mann, Daniel Mizzi, Jess Lopez, Josie Ensley, Jessica Sander, and Darian Keeps
CHAPTER 4: Media Democracy in Action: Inspiring We the People compiled by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff, with contributions by Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org, Davey D of Hard Knock Radio, Shahid Buttar of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Rob Williams and Julie Frechette of the Action Coalition for Media Education, David Cobb of Move to Amend, and Dave Maass of Electronic Frontier Foundation
CHAPTER 5: Service Learning: The SUNY–Buffalo State and Project Censored Partnership by Michael I. Niman
CHAPTER 6: Rewriting Apartheid: News Media Whitewashing of South Africa and the Legacy of Nelson Mandela by Brian Covert
CHAPTER 7: “We Can Live without Gold, but We Can’t Live without Water”: Contesting Big Mining in the Americas by Dorothy Kidd
CHAPTER 8: Law Enforcement–Related Deaths in the US: “Justified Homicides” and Their Impacts on Victims’ Families by Peter Phillips, Diana Grant, and Greg Sewell
CHAPTER 9: It is Easier to Imagine the Zombie Apocalypse than to Imagine the End of Capitalism by Zara Zimbardo
CHAPTER 10: Play it Again, (Uncle) Sam: A Brief History of US Imperialism, Propaganda, and the News by Deepa Kumar
Report from the Media Freedom Foundation President by Peter Phillips