Censored 2017: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2015 - 2016

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Every year since 1976, Project Censored, America's oldest news-monitoring group, has produced a Top 25 list of underreported new stories and a book, Censored. They are dedicated to the stories that should be top features on the nightly news but are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. A perennial favourite of booksellers, teachers and readers everywhere, Censored is one of the strongest life-signs of our current collective desire to get the news we need - despite what Big Media tells us. Features 25 under-reported stories selected by scholars, journalists and activists.

MICKEY HUFF is director of Project Censored and serves on the board of the Media Freedom Foundation. He is currently a professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is co-chair of the history department. Huff is the co-host, with former Project Censored director Dr. Peter Phillips, of The Project Censored Show, a weekly syndicated public affairs program that originates from KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley, California. ANDY LEE ROTH is the associate director of Project Censored. He earned a PhD in Sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles and a BA in Sociology and Anthropology at Haverford College. He teaches sociology at Pomona College and serves on the boards of the Media Freedom Foundation and the Claremont Wildlands Conservancy. Berkeley-based, NYT bestselling editorial cartoonist KHALIL BENDIB brings his non-corporate, non-Eurocentric perspective to over 2,000 small and mid-size newspapers across the country, including Arab, Muslim, African American, and progressive publications, and at www.bendib.com.

"It is immensely gratifying to be able to congratulate Project Censored on the Fortieth Anniversary of its remarkable achievements, both in bringing to us critically important stories that have had little or no media attention and in engaging young activists who will be able to carry on this very valuable work. A crucial contribution to the hope for a more just and democratic society."-NOAM CHOMSKY