Censored 2016
Subtitle: media freedom on the line : the top censored stories and media analysis of 2014-15
By: Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, with Project Censored ; foreword by Nicholas Johnson ; cartoons by Khalil Bendib
Contributors: Project Censored (U.S.)
Edition: Seven Stories Press first edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781609806453
Subjects: Journalism; Censorship
Other titles: 16 censored
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : Censorship, its causes and cures / by Nicholas Johnson; title: Introduction / by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth; title: Chapter 1: The top Censored stories and media analysis of 2014-15 / compiled and edited by Andy Lee Roth; title: 1. Half of global wealth owned by the 1 percent; title: 2. Oil industry illiegally dumps fracking wastewater; title: 3. 89 percent of Pakastini drone victims not identifiable as militants; title: 4. Popular resistance to corporate water grabbing; title: 5. Fukushima nuclear disaster deepens; title: 6. Methane and arctic warming's global impacts; title: 7. Fear of government spying is "chilling" writers' freedom of expression; title: 8. Who dies at the hands of U.S. police and how often; title: 9. Millioins in poverty get less media coverage than billionaires do; title: 10. Costa Rica setting the standard on renewable energy; title: 11. Pesticide manufacturers spend millions on PR response to declining bee populations; title: 12. Seeds of doubt: USDA ignores popular critiques of new pesticide-resistant genetically modified crops; title: 13. Pentagon and NATO encircle Russia and China; title: 14. Global forced displacement tops fifty million; title: 15. Big Sugar borrowing tactics from Big Tobacco; title: 16. US military sexual assault of Colombian children 17. Media "whitewash" Senate's CIA torture report; title: 18. ICREACH: the NSA's secret search engine; title: 19. "Most comprehensive" assessment yet warns against geoengineering risks; title: 20. FBI seeks backdoors in new communications technology; title: 21. The new Amazon of the north: Canadian deforestation; title: 22. Global killing of environmentalists rises drastically; title: 23. Unoriocessed rape kits; title: 24. NSA's AUROGAGOLD program hacks cell phones around world; title: 25. Greenland's meltwater contributes to rising sea levels; title: Chapter 2: Deja vu : what happened to previous Censored stories? / by Susan Rahman ; with research and writing from College of Marin students Nathan Bowman [and 18 others] ; with further research assistance by Diablo Valley College students Darian Edelman and Ellie Kim; title: Chapter 3: A vast wasteland : the ongoing reign of junk food news and news abuse / by Nolan Higdon [and 16 others]; title: Chapter 4: Media democracy in action / compiled by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff, with contributions by [15 others]; title: Chapter 5: A vision for transformative civic engagement : the Global Critical Media Literacy Project / by Julie Frechette, Nolan Higdon, and Rob Williams; title: Chapter 6: Modern Herlands : the significance of Gilman's Herland for the next 100 years / by Sheila Katz; title: Chapter 7: "Dark alliance": the controversy and the legacy, twenty years on / by Brian Covert; title: Chapter 8: Twenty-first-century fascism : private military companies in service to the transnational capitalist class / by Peter Phillips, Ray McClintock, Melissa Carneiro, and Jacob Crabtree; title: Chapter 9: Existence is resistance : women in occupied Palestine and Kashmir / by Tara Dorabji and Susan Rahman; title: Chapter 10: The contours of long-term systemic criss and the need for systemic solutions / by Gar Alperovitz, James Gustave Speth, and Joe Guinan; title: Report from the Media Freedom Foundation President / by Peter Phillips.