free but passive press

Project Censored 2005 – Top 25 Censored Stories:

* 1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy

* 2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Hold Corporations Accountable

* 3: Bush Administration Censors Science

* 4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians

* 5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources

* 6: The Sale of Electoral Politics

* 7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments

* 8: Cheney’s Energy Task Force and The Energy Policy

* 9: Widow Brings RICO Case Against U.S. government for 9/11

* 10: New Nuke Plants: Taxpayers Support, Industry Profits

* 11: The Media Can Legally Lie

* 12: The Destabilization of Haiti

* 13: Schwarzenegger Met with Enron’s Ken Lay Years Before the California Recall

* 14: New Bill Threatens Intellectual Freedom in Area Studies

* 15: U.S. Develops Lethal New Viruses

* 16: Law Enforcement Agencies Spy on Innocent Citizens

* 17: U.S. Government Represses Labor Unions in Iraq in Quest for Business Privatization

* 18: Media and Government Ignore Dwindling Oil Supplies

* 19: Global Food Cartel Fast Becoming hte World’s Supermarket

* 20: Extreme Weather Prompts New Warning from UN

* 21: Forcing a World Market for GMOs

* 22: Censoring Iraq

* 23: Brazil Holds Back in FTAA Talks, But Provides Little Comfort for the Poor of South America

* 24: Reinstating the Draft

* 25: Wal-Mart Brings Inequality and Low Prices to the World

I don’t know if I’d call these censored so much as ignored or under-reported: censorship implies external control, and my guess is this internally-controlled, ie, self-censorship. No less evil, but I’d like it to be clear which it is.

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