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With any "Top 10" list, there's a natural tendency to look first at number one, and neither I nor Project Censored would discourage you from doing that when it comes to their annual list of the top censored stories of the year.
Censorship 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."
Old media patterns alive and well in the year's most suppressed news stories.
By Paul Rosenberg
Project Censored's co-directors, Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, title their introduction to this year's edition of State of the Free Press, "A Return to News Normalcy?"
Part II of Project Censored’s annual list of news stories that have evaded the light of day.
By Paul Rosenberg
The media erasure is part of a system of targeting and marginalization. While journalists everyday work hard to expose injustices, they work within a system where some injustices are so deeply baked in that stories exposing them are rarely told and even more rarely expanded upon to give them their proper due.