MICKEY HUFF is director of Project Censored and serves on the board of the Media Freedom Foundation. To date, he has edited or coedited eight volumes of Censored and contributed numerous chapters to these works dating back to 2008. Additionally, he has coauthored several chapters on media and propaganda for other scholarly publications. He is currently professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is cochair of the history department. Huff is cohost with former Project Censored director Peter Phillips of The Project Censored Show, the weekly syndicated public affairs program that originates from KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley, California. Along with his Project Censored colleagues Peter Phillips and Andy Lee Roth, he is a general editor of the forthcoming Sage Handbook of Censorship (2018). He sits on the advisory board for the Media Literacy and Digital Culture graduate program at Sacred Heart University, and serves on the editorial board for the journal Secrecy and Society. For the past several years, Huff has worked with the national outreach committee of Banned Books Week, working with the American Library Association and the National Coalition Against Censorship, of which Project Censored is a member. He also represents Project Censored as one of the cosponsoring organizations for the national Whistleblowers Summit held annually in Washington, DC. He is a longtime musician and composer and lives with his family in Northern California.
ANDY LEE ROTH is the associate director of Project Censored. He coordinates the Project’s Validated Independent News program. He has coedited six previous editions of Project Censored’s yearbook, in addition to contributing chapters on news photographs depicting the human cost of war ( Censored 2008 ), the Military Commissions Act ( Censored 2009 ), and Iceland and the commons ( Censored 2014 ). His research on topics ranging from ritual to broadcast news interviews and communities organizing for parklands has also appeared in journals, including the International Journal of Press/Politics ; Social Studies of Science ; Media, Culture & Society ; City & Community ; and Sociological Theory. He reviews books for YES! Magazine. He earned a PhD in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in sociology and anthropology at Haverford College. He has taught courses in sociology at UCLA, Bard College, Sonoma State University, College of Marin, Pomona College, and, most recently, Citrus College. He serves on the boards of the Claremont Wildlands Conservancy and the Media Freedom Foundation.
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Determined to break the grip of Junk Food News on the American public, two California fathers uncover the true agenda of the corporate media while they investigate the importance of a free and independent press.
This award-winning documentary, six years in the making, takes an indepth look at what is wrong with the news media in the US and what we can do about it. The film highlights the work of forty-year veteran media democracy organization Project Censored and their commitment to providing solutions through media literacy and critical thinking education while celebrating the best in underreported, independent journalism.
Project Censored: The Movie, made by former PC Sonoma State University student Doug Hecker and longtime Project supporter Christopher Oscar, features original interviews and montages (edited by Mike Fischer) about the Project and media censorship with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Parenti, Oliver Stone, Cynthia McKinney, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Peter Kuznick, Khalil Bendib, Abby Martin, Project-affiliated faculty and students, as well as Project founder Carl Jensen, former director and president of the Media Freedom Foundation Peter Phillips, current director Mickey Huff, and associate director Andy Lee Roth. Plus much, much more!