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Title: Censored 2004 : The Top 25 Censored Stories by Peter Phillips, Project Censored, Amy Goodman, Tom Tomorrow, Thom Hartmann ISBN: 1-58322-605-2 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: What a dreary annual affair
Comment: I noticed something funny about the stated criteria that the "Censored" people use for submissions to this annual blather-fest: to be considered as a "censored" feature, your submission has to have been published. So only published stories are eligible as proof of Amerikkkan "censorship." In reality, it's just those stories that the relevant media found to be either too loony, factually shaky, or just too ideologically driven to be suitable for publication in the major media outlets. So the New York Times won't run your story about "valuable lead mines in Kosovo are the secret reason NATO went to war against Serbia." Jeepers, these people are a half-stop removed from your typical smelly pants fascists and your Montana survivalists in terms of their level of sophistication.
Actually, on the subject of censorship generally, I am much less afraid of Ashcroft than I am of the trend in this country of strangling any expression that anyone deems to find offensive, and the guilty include people and organizations of both the left and the right.
Rating: 3
Summary: Everybody Has An Agenda
Comment: The group which puts out this series of books leans hard left, so the 25 stories all fit nicely with their view of the world. Some are legitimate, some would take a very slow news day to make any sort of splash, a few got all the coverage they deserved, a few are just before their time, and a few are pretty thin speculations that no self-respecting news paper or other outlet would touch. If you got a conservative group to come up with the stories, you would get the same level of legitimacy with 25 completely different issues. Better this year than a couple of the previous editions, but still a bit out there and still intellectually dishonest in its representation of its views. This is quite clearly 25 stories that fit the agenda of the group who wrote it, not just 25 stories that didn't get the coverage they deserved, a fact that makes them as culpable as the news outlets they criticize.
Rating: 4
Summary: Still Important; Uneven This Year
Comment: Having followed the Project Censored yearly editions since the mid-90s, I have found that each volume has its own level of quality, even though the uncensored stories themselves are always of utmost importance. That is probably because of the changing staff of judges and college interns that Peter Phillips utilizes each year. A recent highpoint in the series is the 2003 edition, with powerful coverage of post-9/11 developments in journalism. On the other hand, 2001 saw an atrocious and poorly edited parade of whiny conspiracy theories and condescending tirades toward the public for not taking certain stories seriously. This new 2004 edition is somewhere in between, with some strong coverage fighting against poor editing and selection of material.
This book suffers from both poor technical and poor managerial editing. First, there are a considerable number of typos and technical errors. Meanwhile, after the year's top 25 stories are covered (and they're as important as always) the commentary section of the book is distressingly uneven from an editorial standpoint. We get fascinating and powerful essays on media behavior regarding the propaganda-heavy Iraq War, and the horrific challenges to the First Amendment unleashed by Homeland Security. But surrounding these are clunkers such as "Media Democracy in Action," which attempts to praise alternative news organizations but comes across as a wave of advertisements, especially in regards to Pacifica Radio and a community newspaper operated by Phillips. Meanwhile, the updates on censored stories from previous years are now being written by various members of the project team, with often unprofessional results indicating a need for more (or any) editorial control.
Once again, the stories uncovered by the team are of incredible importance to all Americans who are concerned about media behavior and knowledge of truly important events. For this reason, the work of Project Censored is as crucial as always. However, this edition of the series shows again that an entire large book requires a level of editorial and writing strength that the team is not always able to deliver. [~doomsdayer520~]
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Title: Censored 2003: The Top 25 Censored Stories (CENSORED) by Peter Phillips, Project Censored, Robert Waterman McChesney ISBN: 1583225153 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know by Russ Kick ISBN: 0971394288 Publisher: The Disinformation Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance by Nat Hentoff ISBN: 1583226214 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them by Amy Goodman, David Goodman ISBN: 1401301312 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: 20 Years of Censored News by Carl Jensen, Tom Tomorrow, Project Censored ISBN: 1888363525 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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