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source: Stephen Lendman, Global Research For 33 years, Sonoma State University’s (SSU) Project Censored (PC) has engaged in pioneering research on, and advocacy for, First Amendment issues. Founded by Carl Jensen in 1976, it’s now headed by Professor Ben Frymer. On July 1, he took over from Professor Peter Phillips who stepped down after 13 years of distinguished service as Director. PC works cooperatively “with numerous independent (US) media groups,” primarily to train SSU students “in media research and First Amendment issues and the advocacy for, and protection of, free press rights in the United States. For over three decades, it’s “trained over 1,500 students in investigative research” and continues doing it through “a partnership of faculty, students, and the community,” cooperatively engaged in “research on important national news stories that are underreported, ignored, misrepresented, or censored by the US corporate media.” Each year, it ranks the top 25 and publishes them in its yearbook, “Censored: Media Democracy in Action.” The latest “Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008 – 09” just out is the subject of this review. The book may now be purchased locally, online, and most easily at projectcensored.org/store. |
Reviewing Project Censored’s Latest Top 25 Censored Stories
October 4, 2009
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Brad Friedman interviews Philip Giraldi, Peter Phillips – 9/30/09
October 1, 2009Please visit the Brad Blog to hear an interview with Peter Phillps and others….
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9/11 Truth. An American Enigma-A Message to Truth Activists
September 21, 2009|
source: Global Research 9/11 has become an American enigma. For many, 9/11 remains a puzzling, inexplicable, phenomenon that defies understanding in its complexities and misinformation. Most people doubt the full truth of the 9/11 Commission’s report, but are unable to accept that people inside the government could be so evil as to allow the deaths of 3000 Americans. In a study published in the journal Sociological Inquiry, sociologists from four major research institutions focused on one of the most curious aspects of the 2004 presidential election: the strength and resilience of the belief among many Americans that Saddam Hussein was linked to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The study calls such unsubstantiated beliefs “a serious challenge to democratic theory and practice” and considers how and why so many people linked Hussein to 9/11. Co-author Steven Hoffman, Ph.D., from University at Buffalo, says, “Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as ‘motivated reasoning,’ which suggests that rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe. |
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Peter Phillips at the Oakland Grand Lake Theater
September 15, 2009source: 9/11 Blogger
Presentation by Peter Phillips, September 10, 2009 at the 9/11 Truth Film Festival
9/11 has become an American enigma. For many, 9/11 remains a puzzling, inexplicable, phenomenon that defies understanding in its complexities and misinformation. Most people doubt the full truth of the 9/11 Commission’s report, but are unable to accept that people inside the government could be so evil as to allow the deaths of 3000 Americans.
In a study published in the journal Sociological Inquiry, sociologists from four major research institutions focus on one of the most curious aspects of the 2004 presidential election: the strength and resilience of the belief among many Americans that Saddam Hussein was linked to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The study calls such unsubstantiated beliefs “a serious challenge to democratic theory and practice” and considers how and why so many people linked Hussein to 9/11. Co-author Steven Hoffman, Ph.D., from University at Buffalo, says, “Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as ‘motivated reasoning,’ which suggests that rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe.
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Taboo News and Corporate Media By Peter Phillips 8/1/09
August 3, 2009source: 9/11 Blogger
By Peter Phillips
The corporate media in the United States are ignoring valid news
stories, based on university quality research. It appears that certain
topics are simply forbidden inside the mainstream corporate media
today. To openly cover these news stories would stir up questions
regarding “inconvenient truths” that many in the US power structure
want to avoid.
For example, current research indicates that public schools in the
United States are more segregated today than they have been in more
than four decades. According to a new Civil Rights report, published
at the University of California, Los Angeles, schools in the US are 44
percent non-white, and minorities are rapidly emerging as the majority
of public school students in the US. Latinos and blacks, the two
largest minority groups, attend schools more segregated today than
during the civil rights movement forty years ago. Millions of non-
white students are locked into “dropout factory” high schools, where
huge percentages do not graduate. The most severe segregation in
public schools occurs in the Western states, including California; not
in the South, as many people believe. Most non-white schools are
segregated by poverty as well as race. Schools in low-income
communities remain highly unequal in terms of funding, qualified
teachers, and curriculum.
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The Importance of Including Truth Emergency and 9/11 Inside the International Progressive Anti-War Movement
July 13, 2009source: Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, Project Censored
The international truth emergency is the result of fraudulent elections, compromised 9/11 investigations, illegal preemptive wars, and a continued top down corporate media propaganda. Glenn Beck recently was able to say on national Fox television news that 9/11 truth people openly supported the shooting at the Holocaust Museum. Beck claimed that 9/11 truth proponents see James von Brunn as a “hero.” Beck’s statement is completely without factual merit and represents a hyperrealist slamming of a group already slanderously pre-labled by the corporate media as “conspiracy theorists.”
A truth emergency is predicated on the inability of many to distinguish between what is real and what is not. Corporate media, Fox in particular, offers news that creates a hyperreality of real world problems and issues. Consumers of corporate television news—especially those whose understandings are framed primarily from that medium alone—are embedded in a state of excited delirium of knowinglessness. This lack of factual awareness of issues like election fraud in 2004, and the increasing evidence of 9/11 Commission report inaccuracies, often leaves people politically paralyzed.
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