We Need ‘More Muckrakers and Fewer Buck-Takers’
Mickey Huff for Project Censored Fifty years ago, Carl Jensen founded Project Censored because he knew that journalism was the lifeblood of democracy. He argued that the news media, despite…
Silencing Student Reporters Threatens Public’s Right to Know
Jim Rodenbush for Project Censored I faced a decision last October that would dramatically change my professional and personal life. I could enforce a directive from Indiana University administrators to…
Frame-Checking “Insurgency” in Minnesota
Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl for Project Censored Trump administration officials, joined by a chorus of Republican politicians and right-wing media pundits, have been referring to public demonstrations against…
Enemy of or for the People?
Media democracy to uphold the U.S. Constitution By Mischa Geracoulis of Project Censored An attack on press freedom is an attack on all constitutional rights and democratic norms accorded by…
Trump’s War on Epistemic Institutions
By Steve Macek for Project Censored Contemporary liberal democracies such as the United States depend on more than free elections andstable, functioning economies. They also rely on what are sometimes…
A Direct Attack on the Freedom of Speech: Trump Takes On Higher Ed
By: James Libresco for Project Censored And then came the universities. After waging war on public broadcasting and the arts, the Trump administration threatened last month to cut federal funding…
The Alex Jones Playbook
Jones and legacy news media hate each other, but they often use the same playbook.
Sleeping at the Wheel: The Uber Files, the Media, and the Coup Against Labor Rights
Uber’s entire model has been about breaking—if not smashing—labor law (and worker power) through systematic misclassification.