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

1. Ocean Acidification Increasing at Unprecedented Rate

2. Top Ten US Aid Recipients All Practice Torture

3. WikiLeaks Revelations on Trans-Pacific Partnership Ignored by Corporate Media

4. Corporate Internet Providers Threaten Net Neutrality

5. Bankers Back on Wall Street Despite Major Crimes

6. The Deep State: Government “without Reference to the Consent of the Governed”

7. FBI Dismisses Murder Plot against Occupy Leaders as NSA and Big Business Crack Down on Dissent

8. Corporate News Ignores Connections between Extreme
Weather and Global Warming

9. US Media Hypocrisy in Covering Ukraine Crisis

10. World Health Organization Suppresses Report on
Iraqi Cancers and Birth Defects

11. Wealthy Donors and Corporations Set Think Tanks’ Agendas

12. Pentagon Awash in Money Despite Serious Audit Problems

13. Lawsuit Challenges Nuclear Power Industry Immunity from Liability in Nuclear Accidents

14. Accumulating Evidence of Ongoing Wireless
Technology Health Hazards

15. Reporting Miscarriages, Criminalizing Pregnant Women’s Bodies

16. The Beef Industry’s “Feedlot Feedback Loop”

17. 2016 Will Find Gaza out of Drinking Water

18. National Database of Police Killings Aims for Accountability

19. Agribusiness Giants Attempt to Silence and Discredit Scientists Whose Research Reveals Herbicides’ Health Threats

20. Estonia a Global Example of E-Government, Digital Freedom,
Privacy, and Security

21. Questioning the Charter School Hype

22. Corporate News Media Understate Rape, Sexual Violence

23. Number of US Prison Inmates Serving Life Sentences Hits New Record

24. Restorative Justice Turns Violent Schools Around

25. “Chaptered Out”: US Military Seeks to Balance Budget on Backs of Disabled Veterans

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

Acknowledgments

Report from the Media Freedom Foundation President by Peter Phillips

How to Support Project Censored

About the Editors