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Published: 2016-03-04
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well good evening ladies and gentlemen thanks for joining us I'm Peter B. Collins in San Francisco and this is a delayed %HESITATION live broadcast in support of news but and new squad is on the drawing boards right now we are picking up funding from %HESITATION people who are hungry for new media outlets and independent media reporting and with your help we're going to raise the money
to be able to launch news but later this year I'm Peter B. Collins I'm instead from Cisco Sibel Edmonds will be joining us from Oregon a little bit later %HESITATION in fact she could just log in and Sibel we are live on YouTube and on the Google hang out now we have corrected the technical problems that I personally created and I'm learning a lot about how
these things work out I'm an old school radio guy I know about video but of the online %HESITATION network stuff news is the new a new tool to use and I think we're getting a grip on it right now so without any further ado I want to introduce making up he is one of the directors of projects sensor and every year project censored publishes a list
of at least twenty five major news stories that were ignored or given %HESITATION limited coverage by the mainstream media project censored is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year and let's go to Mickey because he's got the latest addition to the book go ahead hold that up and I remember when Carl Jensen I first started project censored its enormous state university and it's hard to believe that
that was forty years ago Mickey but you Peter Phillips and other people have picked up the baton and explain to our viewers what the mission of projects answered yes well here thanks so much for having me back in seatbelts wonderful to be here with the both of you and we are assuredly %HESITATION at project censored in the media freedom foundation are nonprofit I'm we are very
much supportive of the Peter B. Collin show boiling frogs all the great work that you do is independent journalists and I'm you know what projects sensor does is we we cover the news that doesn't make the news and we try to help analyze and explain to people why that is I'm since nineteen seventy six as you said operator we've been doing this and it's a student
research project were were very much centered around media literacy public media I am education and %HESITATION were really behind critical thinking in a critical pedagogy for understanding media and we also train people how to be the media and this is something that Carl Jensen started in nineteen seventy six after %HESITATION after a question that he asked himself he said how is it that Richard Nixon waltzed
into the White House in nineteen seventy two given that the so called alternative media had already reported on his Watergate shenanigans but the corporate press what people around me as we call the mainstream press is that the mainstream about six corporations that own the media I'm ninety percent of it in the United States I'm but he said how is it that that took so long for
for that the alleged heroes at the Washington post on earth story that other people were talking about and Carl you know was a journalism man and so he really started the question himself he said what how was it that I missed the highest worry and that was the genesis of project censored was what else are we missing you know he he considered himself a very well
informed communications person journalism person any said I don't know how did we miss this and the way that we miss these things is because of the important stories are drowned out in a din right of sensationalism and what Carl called junk food news our propagandized so forth public relations and and Carl era it was committed he committed it is the latter part of his career the
second half of his career to educating students about media literacy to research stories an alternative independent media and then find out why wasn't this being covered why was the corporate media not covering this course you know later on and you know we learn a lot more about that through the propaganda model Noam Chomsky Edward Herrmann I'm advertisers ownership flak official source saying ideological bias as a
whole host of reasons why the stories don't get picked up by the for profit media and you know Carl shine the light on that and said we need to have a strong vibrant independent press in this country and we do it we have the first amendment protecting journalists are of course that's come under attack at various times in our history certainly dumb you know more so
under president Obama are you Billy where we've had more prosecution of whistle blowers at any time in our history an assault on truth tellers and that's why we need independent media that's why I said before we need news but we need boiling frogs are these the kind of group project censored highlights every year and you know Carl Jensen really got the ball rolling Peter Phillips picked
it up and ran with it and now we've grown to over twenty campuses around the U. S. we've worked in over six countries we've got an idea of what the word winning documentary film we actually have two of them now we got a radio station on thirty two stations from pacifica around the U. S. and out you know we're we're still carrying on that mission and
we started a new group I knew a collaboration between act me the I. action coalition for media education and Sacred Heart university graduate school our program and media literacy digital culture where were really pushing media literacy is an issue were pushing it as part of citizenship and civic duty in the twenty first century and yet that's what projects answers about it's about celebrating the free press
celebrating those reporters that tell the truth and jeopardize other own careers in the process I Sibel Edmonds I don't need to tell you about that I am you should you know you really put your neck out after nine eleven you know to tell tell the truth about what was wrong with our with our %HESITATION sort of our our alleged safeguards in our systems to protect us
free expression and that's really what we do a project censored and again we've been doing it for forty years and we intend to keep doing it your viewers and listeners can check us out more it projects answer dot O. R. G. and you can I wouldn't know group what's hall I'm when projects since we heard was censored are this was a this was at a media
reform conference a few years back Emily obelus yeah new and Peter Phillips were tabling it can be used as a horror yeah you had declared a truce emergency I need and I think the truth emergency continues to exist and the organizers of the media reform conference %HESITATION essentially censored you they said please this isn't the right place for this and there's a fox news crew over
here we can't let them see this and this is an example of how even those with good intentions to reform the corporate media in this country don't have the independence and the courage to stand up and call ally ally and call a truce emergency for what it is I'm afraid that's right Peter B. and we certainly ought we never intended to disparage any of the free
press organization members certainly they've done a lot of great work over the years but you know if there was some great irony involved in in that event where they had an online vote for %HESITATION people to select what panels they wanted to see at the event and ours was actually selected second in its category and yet they decided that we didn't merit our own session I
am based on censorship of topics so we decided to have our own breakout session and we had over forty five people there more than attended some of their own sessions %HESITATION and yeah we've we use that platform to call attention to the rank hypocrisy among people crying up the media freedom crying for a free press not when it at a project censored we have pretty simple
guidelines there is nothing that should be sidelined there's nothing that should not be reported I am and if we have controversy or dispute about facts we should debated openly we should invite people to present their cases we shouldn't attack them we shouldn't ad hominem attack we shouldn't use a straw person to distort people's arguments and you points we should allow them to be heard and we
should allow them to be debated on the factual merits as their transparently sourced in an alleged open marketplace of ideas strangely there wasn't one at the free press conference and we did it again in Denver I'm where we were tabled in sidelined and they gave us our our fifteen minutes on the soap box so to speak of our free speech I'm anyone later the conference organizer
said yeah you guys are right I'm are we don't we we can't seem to be all be able to control these things to make everybody happy and and you know whatever it was that we were interested in having some kind of fight with these people we dismounted incredibly ironic that at the free press conference they were censoring people like project censored I know it and others