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…
Technogarchy Goes to Washington
Billionaire tech owners who align themselves with whatever administration occupies the White House undermine democracy by threatening a dangerous consolidation of private and public power.
Navigating the News Void: From News Deserts to Revitalization
By Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff /Project Censored In 1995, early in the development of the global internet, sociologist Michael Schudson imagined how people might process information if journalism…
Mandatory Media Literacy Education Could Be Coming to California Schools Soon
But Will It Lead to Media Literacy Education or Corporate Indoctrination?
From Russiagate With Love
Corporate media spin and revisionist reporting on Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election continue.
Promoting Falsehoods and Marginalizing Truth-Tellers
WaPo’s Revelations About Russiagate Reporting Failures Typify Legacy Media Failures.
The ‘Big Lie’: Election Denialism is an Art Practiced by Both Sides
Despite heavy media attention on Republicans' efforts to question the 2020 presidential election, Dems employed similar rhetoric in 2016.
What if Journalism Disappeared?
By examining how journalism is missing from many Americans’ lives, we can identify false paths and promising routes to its reinvention
Banned in the USA: Banned Books Week Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
It’s time to unequivocally condemn censorship.
Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff: Did Dobbs Help the Left Rediscover How Political Change is Made?
The progressive push for Biden’s executive order illustrates that abortion rights needed to be protected, not taken for granted by party leaders.
Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff: Defund the Democratic Party
More Republicans in office will not save abortion rights, but history has shown, neither will more Democrats.
Nolan Higdon & Mickey Huff: Has America Lost the Key to Democracy?
The authors of “Let’s Agree to Disagree” offer a guide to fostering critical thinking and dialogue in a society that seems to have forgotten how to engage in either.