The 25 Most-Censored News Stories of the Year

Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University that tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. Each year, from 700 and 1000 stories submitted by journalists, scholars, librarians, and concerned citizens, Project Censored compiles a list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media (This year: #1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media; #2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran; #3 Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger; #4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US; #5 High-Tech Genocide in Congo; and #6 Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy). The university community chooses the 25 stories from among the submissions, and they are then ranked in order of importance by a national panel of judges that this year includes Noam Chomsky, Susan Faludi, George Gerbner, Sut Jhally , Frances Moore Lappe, Norman Solomon, Michael Parenti, Herbert I. Schiller, Barbara Seaman, Erna Smith, Mike Wallace and Howard Zinn. The 25 stories are published on line and in the organization's yearbook, Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News.