Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006

[Osborn F Enready]

Link to original site, which has each story independently referenced, in detail, by multiple authors.

http://projectcensored.org/censored_2006/index.htm

Here are some of the stories the National Media SHOULD be covering, but aren't.
Does anyone have a reason why National Media wouldn't touch these stories? :rolleyes:

Please click the link above to read each story in detail, along with the credits for each. Below are the title headings for all of these stories.

#1 Bush Administration Moves to Eliminate Open Government

#2 Media Coverage Fails on Iraq: Fallujah and the Civilian Deathtoll

#3 Another Year of Distorted Election Coverage

#4 Surveillance Society Quietly Moves In

#5 U.S. Uses Tsunami to Military Advantage in Southeast Asia

#6 The Real Oil for Food Scam

#7 Journalists Face Unprecedented Dangers to Life and Livelihood

#8 Iraqi Farmers Threatened By Bremer’s Mandates

#9 Iran’s New Oil Trade System Challenges U.S. Currency

#10 Mountaintop Removal Threatens Ecosystem and Economy

#11 Universal Mental Screening Program Usurps Parental Rights

#12 Military in Iraq Contracts Human Rights Violators

#13 Rich Countries Fail to Live up to Global Pledges

#14 Corporations Win Big on Tort Reform, Justice Suffers

#15 Conservative Plan to Override Academic Freedom in the Classroom

#16 U.S. Plans for Hemispheric Integration Include Canada

#17 U.S. Uses South American Military Bases to Expand Control of the Region

#18 Little Known Stock Fraud Could Weaken U.S. Economy

#19 Child Wards of the State Used in AIDS Experiments

#20 American Indians Sue for Resources; Compensation Provided to Others

#21 New Immigration Plan Favors Business Over People

#22 Nanotechnology Offers Exciting Possibilities But Health Effects Need Scrutiny

#23 Plight of Palestinian Child Detainees Highlights Global Problem

#24 Ethiopian Indigenous Victims of Corporate and Government Resource Aspirations

#25 Homeland Security Was Designed to Fail

[Capitalist Pig]

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[Osborn F Enready]

Give me a break.....

That is a fully OVER-resourced story about NEWS the NATIONAL MEDIA WON'T TOUCH.

Regardless, I put it there because I thought it fit there best, even though I read the rules of posting in the forum. It REVOLVES around national news, and the job they are NOT doing.

[Capitalist Pig]

Sorry buddy, I can't say I disagree with you, but Sean's criteria is not our criteria. If the media isn't criticizing itself, it just doesn't belong. If you'd like to further this discussion, PM me. I don't want to see this thread go to waste.

[Osborn F Enready]

Thanks for the understanding CP, and I digress I should have not argued the move.

I am however suprised with this many views, not many comments. That is rare.

[bishop]

many of these stories have been reported in the major media. the biggest difference, though, is that the stories weren't as blatantly biased as some of these are. many of them are articles combined with op-eds.

[Osborn F Enready]

That is what makes them stories the national media won't touch..... They are telling much more of the truth, and not just the popular tip of the iceberg leaving all the "little details" of who brought them to bear and why out of the story.

It's like saying terrorists despise us because we are members of a free government.....

Terrorists hate us all right, but not for THAT reason.

The major media hits the headline, and then ignores the details, if it goes there at all.

How many of you actually looked at more than 1 of those stories?

[Dieval]

Take a look a projectcensored.org's resource list....it's a doozy..

Resource list..

[Rainbow]

Quote by: Osborn F Enready Link to original site, which has each story independently referenced, in detail, by multiple authors. http://projectcensored.org/censored_2006/index.htm

If you have an access to all the "censored" data that refers to JFK assassination, you would not be surprised all these 25 points.
To complete the list :
#26 Bases for a Sate's Ideology - which stands as an unquestionable "priority" on a top of everything
#27 Politics and Money - which stands right behind point #26 :-)))

[Pale RIder]

Quote by: Dieval Take a look a projectcensored.org's resource list....it's a doozy.. Resource list..

Reads like a whose who of the wacko left. Did you follow any of the links to their favorite sites? Seems like a.n.s.w.e.r. is involved in one way or another with nearly all of them....usefull idiots.

[Dirty Name]

The reason these "news" stories aren't getting any traction with the main stream media is because this great country is better informed than ever before.

Americans are, by nature, optimists and skeptics. Rush Limbaugh knows and understands this. That's why his radio show is an overwhelming success. He is not a conspiracy theorist, he doesn't peddle victimhood, his show is upbeat and he gives the audience members credit for knowing a lot about what is going on in the world today. This is why he has been able to sustain such a large audience over the years.

Contrast this with your "Chicken-Little-the-sky-is-falling" mentality of most modern liberals (moveon.org, ANSWER, etc.) and the picture begins to get pretty clear as to why the mainstream media refuses to cover a bunch of stories that are little more than liberal talking points. Itt's because most people don't believe the bile spewing from the left anymore. You can shout it louder and in a more shrill voice, but it won't ever make any of it true.

[Osborn F Enready]

LOL, the wacko left.

So is that me too?

Dirty Name, knowing you are a "dittohead" says it all. Thanks for your confession.

Amazing how strong the support is for the national media, when it suits you, but any other time they are the "evil liberal media".

Well done men.

[Osborn F Enready]

Also, you notice I made no attempt to not disclose sources, and actually PROVIDED SOURCE LINKS AND ALONG WITH THE POST.

Does that mean I support them, or does it mean I see merit in seeing both sides to a story?

[PatrickHenry]

Quote by: Osborn F Enready Does anyone have a reason why National Media wouldn't touch these stories?

Maybe these stories tarnish the Empire's star? A thousand points of light blinking out one by one?

[Milton Bradley]

Quote by: PatrickHenry Maybe these stories tarnish the Empire's star? A thousand points of light blinking out one by one?

Hehehehhehe.


Priceless.