Book Description:
<p><b>Praise for Project Censored:</b></p><p>'Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge this collection of suppressed stories allows us.' <i>San Diego Review</i></p><p>'Devastating evidence of the dumbing down of mainstream news in America. . . . . Required reading for broadcasters, journalists, and well informed citizens.' <i>Los Angeles Times</i></p><p>'A terrific resource.' <i>Library Journal</i></p><p>'A distant early warning system for society's problems.' <i>American Journalism Review</i></p><p>Project Censored highlights the year's 25 most important underreported news stories, alerting readers to deficiencies in corporate media. And this year, for the first time ever, <i>Censored 2005</i> will add some original reporting of its own, breaking a major news story in its pages. <i>Censored 2005</i> additionally features essays by Stephanie Dyer, Ph.D., (on cross ownership of U.S. broadcast media), and Normon Soloman (on the state of media in the US).</p><p><b>Peter Phillips</b>, director of Project Censored, is an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State University. He is known for his op ed pieces in the alternative press and independent newspapers nationwide, including <i>Z Magazine</i> and <i>Social Policy</i>. He frequently speaks on censorship and various sociopolitical issues on radio and TV talk shows, including <i>Talk of the Nation</i>, <i>Public Interest</i>, <i>World Radio Network</i>, and <i>Democracy Now!</i>. He lives in rural Sonoma County, California.</p><p><b>Project Censored</b>, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, has as its principal objective the advocacy for and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United States.</p>
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