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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 knowing what is happening in society.” It is, after all, the reason that journalism enjoys special ...

Project Censored's Top 10 Stories show just one pattern dominating all others this year

“Poor Captain Lyle/ Was drinking a beer at the bar./ One of the local losers/ Tried to get dear/ With a hole in his pocket/ Just to grab his cash fast./ Lyndie the bartender/ Just 86’d her ass.”—James Allen. Photo: “Captain Lyle at the Indian Room,” by Ray Carofano “Poor Captain Lyle/ Was drinking a beer at the bar./ One of the local losers/ Tried to get dear/ With a hole in his pocket/ Just to grab his cash fast./ Lyndie the bartender/ Just 86’d her ass.”—James Allen. Photo: “Captain Lyle at the Indian Room,” by Ray Carofano