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Censored 2016, media freedom on the line : the top censored stories and media analysis of 2014-15, Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, with Project Censored ; foreword by Nicholas Johnson ; cartoons by Khalil Bendib

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Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, with Project Censored ; foreword by Nicholas Johnson ; cartoons by Khalil Bendib

media freedom on the line : the top censored stories and media analysis of 2014-15

Presents major news stories ignored or underreported by the mainstream media in 2014-2015, covering such topics as illegal dumping of fracking wastewater, sexual assault of Colombian children by US military, unprocessed rape kits, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster

Foreword : Censorship, its causes and cures / by Nicholas Johnson -- Introduction / by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth -- Chapter 1: The top Censored stories and media analysis of 2014-15 / compiled and edited by Andy Lee Roth -- Chapter 2: Deja vu : what happened to previous Censored stories? / by Susan Rahman ; with research and writing from College of Marin students Nathan Bowman [and 17 others] ; with further research assistance by Diablo Valley College students Darian Edelman and Ellie Kim -- Chapter 3: A vast wasteland : the ongoing reign of junk food news and news abuse / by Nolan Higdon [and 16 others] -- Chapter 4: Media democracy in action / compiled by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff, with contributions by [15 others] -- Chapter 5: A vision for transformative civic engagement : the Global Critical Media Literacy Project / by Julie Frechette, Nolan Higdon, and Rob Williams -- Chapter 6: Modern Herlands : the significance of Gilman's Herland for the next 100 years / by Sheila Katz -- Chapter 7: "Dark alliance": the controversy and the legacy, twenty years on / by Brian Covert -- Chapter 8: Twenty-first-century fascism : private military companies in service to the transnational capitalist class / by Peter Phillips, Ray McClintock, Melissa Carneiro, and Jacob Crabtree -- Chapter 9: Existence is resistance : women in occupied Palestine and Kashmir / by Tara Dorabji and Susan Rahman -- Chapter 10: The contours of long-term systemic crisis and the need for systemic solutions / by Gar Alperovitz, James Gustave Speth, and Joe Guinan -- Report from the Media Freedom Foundation President / by Peter Phillips

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