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Photo by Lucas Hoang on Unsplash By Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff /Project Censored In 1995, early in the development of the global internet, sociologist Michael Schudson imagined how people might process information if journalism were to suddenly disappear. An expert on the history of US news media, Schudson speculated in his book, The Power of News, that peoples’ need to identify the day’s most important and relevant news from the continuous torrent of available information would eventuall...

Trust in media is at an all-time low, in part because of corporate outlets’ failure to cover what’s really going on.

In 1995, early in the development of the global internet, sociologist Michael Schudson imagined how people might process information if journalism were to suddenly disappear. An expert on the history of US news media, Schudson speculated in his book, The Power of News, that peoples’ need to identify the day’s most important and relevant news

Photo by Kimberly Farmer on Unsplash By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff / Project Censored California is currently considering two media literacy bills, both of which have sailed through the California State Assembly and are being reviewed by the Senate Education Committee. The first, Assembly Bill 873, authored by Assemblymember Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, requires teaching media literacy in K-12 schools throughout the Golden State. The Second bill, sponsored by Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland), Assembly

Since its founding in 1976, Project Censored has focused on stories — like Watergate before the 1972 election — that aren’t censored in the authoritarian government sense, but in a broader, expanded sense reflective of what a functioning democracy should be; censorship is defined as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method — including bias, omission, underreporting, or self-censorship — that prevents the public from fully knowi...

Project Censored's Top 10 Stories Show Just One Pattern Dominating All Others This Year

The real causes of inflation, Gates Foundation media investments, the CIA and Julian Assange, ALECs push to preserve its influence networks in state legislation, and surveillance advertising are the next five stories on the list.

Fossil fuel subsidies, wage theft, EPA risk reports, congressional conflicts of interest, and dark, dark money: Concentration of corporate wealth and power distorts everything we see — and dont see — in the world around us every day.

One pattern dominates all the others: The distortions of wealthy media tycoons