Project Censored
There was a great segment on CBC’s The Current about Project Censored. Project Censored is a project run out of the University of Sonomo that monitors news stories carried in the media, tracking what gets covered in mainstream US corporate media; and reports on the stories that aren’t getting covered in the mainstream press. CBC’s story was hung on the Top 25 Censored Stories of this year (which they confusingly call the 2006 list). The stories are clearly focused on the US, but they are still worth reading.
Our society needs more third-party observers like these folks. Mainstream news outlets just seem to focus on a handfull of stories at a time (lessee, in Canada, that would currently be: the election; the Boxing Day shooting in Toronto; and year-end roundups); while our “independent media” just seems shrill, poorly researched, and biased.
One of my many, many wishes is that Project Censored “Real News” page had an RSS feed.
