The media companies say, 'We give the public what it wants,' but that's not true - they give the public what they want to give the public, the public doesn't know what the alternate stories are. Indeed, one of the top 10 stories, from the American Journalism Review, details the decline in foreign coverage in the American press. It's a fair question. The stories selected for the top 10 frequently focus on the misdeeds of big corporations in pursuit of profits. Jensen strenuously denies that the project is politically motivated.
Conservative columnists get more exposure than liberal ones.
If you're sleeping on a radioactive bed frame, you're going to get cancer, the American Cancer Society isn't going to help you. Some leftist journalists, too, have raised questions about the project. David Bacon, a reporter who covers labor and immigration, accuses Project Censored of ignoring working-class people's issues. That's a positive contribution. But they see the news very much as the mainstream media sees it - the things that are newsworthy are the movements of the rich and powerful.