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Title: Newsbud Live with Prof. Mickey Huff
Published: 2016-03-04
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im4vhxYwqZ4
Title: Newsbud Live with Prof. Mickey Huff
Published: 2016-03-04
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im4vhxYwqZ4
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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 money2/142
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 how3/142
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 list4/142
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 that5/142
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 very6/142
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 student7/142
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 waltzed8/142
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 for9/142
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 well10/142
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 the11/142
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 a12/142
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 so13/142
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 picked14/142
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 and15/142
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 press16/142
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 us17/142
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 media18/142
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 over19/142
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 free20/142
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 I21/142
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 simple22/142
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 we23/142
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 organizer24/142
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 others25/142
by the way many others it wasn't just us it would everybody that had something that the left media was too afraid to talk about whether it was election fried nine eleven and look even even have to go into things like building seven the commission report itself is rock was so many flaws and so much corruption and that to not talk about it is a blatant act26/142
of censorship yeah so we were pretty mystified by the whole process to be quite Frank and make you let me turn to Sibel Edmonds because she has long talked about what she calls the pseudo alternative media and there are some great reporters who work for some of these independent outlets but as a as a group as a body of work they often come up short and27/142
pull punches and protect %HESITATION the establishment in ways that are really hard to understand so Sibel take a moment here to talk about your views about the weakness of some of the independent media and how new skirt hopes to change that well I don't know how how how would you characterize the more defined the independent media because other than some are individuals that they get James28/142
Corbett who just got joined us here and hands full of people like James corporate I don't think I have come across any independent media all because I think we are going with them stricter definition of independent media and I know there are a lot of people out there who who have set up what the point independent media but based on the standards that are plugging in29/142
here your abiding by that's a lot of this model doesn't exist and I think even example okay one example is they set up a lot of these you know they're the ones with some resources as five oh one C. three nonprofit organization okay I dealt with that for years during my national security whistleblowers coalition activism I looked into where I am what I found out was30/142
there is no such a thing as a free lunch so government says okay Alexander you from giving taxes I'm Alexander the people who don't make you by giving them tax credit what many look at those forms that I arrest puts him there and the rules that they say you have to abide by now if you are running his super house for the whole list no problem31/142
okay but if you're running a media organization and you take that as they've okay be can raise more money and have more money by being five oh one C. three you are giving up at least thirty forty percent of your in the past you'll have to check with the attorneys and accountants who will tell you actually you can't go this far saying or you can engage32/142
in this or you can locate in that wall to me getting into the act up category of Bible once each week takes away from your independence at least by thirty percent that's why we are not sending nonprofit you know what because there is no free lunch and I'm not going to abide by this corrupt governments okay orders and rules and limits ourselves and limit our journalists33/142
and and and Eugene censorship of my own you know speeches that that my home interview sort of people like each of you because it is extremely easy so don't show up violate because believe me if you're doing the real journalism and I haven't seen much of that if you're doing real journalism okay economy watching and the things that they were there as the other organizations that34/142
will come as a gift to you so five oh one C. three impossible I would never do it yes you gonna pay the taxes and even a soft reported okay yes the people who are going to donate to us they are not that they get some tax whatever credit or exemption but this isn't doing it they're real weight and the hard way I'm sorry you know35/142
anyone who's going to disagree with this you can't me abiding by the government rules if I will once the tree and maintain call click independence so that's one and then the second thing I see different is that you don't copy of our journalists partners that that you're going to feature an contract of producers I haven't seen this model I have not seen an alternative and any36/142
organization media organization that is defining itself as alternative where you have side by side three four different bullet political philosophies I daily basis meaning libertarian anarchists avarice leftist rightist so anybody who can cut you know comes and visits your site if you ask me what is this like what is this slice political leanings they won't be able to tell you because it's all there and it's37/142
not leaning this way or leaning that way we're not in the cleaning business okay you are talking about the issues and sometimes you're going to broadcast two three sometimes contradicting point of views I currently Peter we are covering this case of you know love boys minute come shooting and you interview because that's the kind of integrity you have your baby left me but you provided a38/142
very objective good forum for someone to come talk about they need to cover up the government and especially here state government in Oregon is engaged okay I'm not gonna tell you right off the bat that I have one person that has been working with us the you should not covered S. and I'm I'm off then that because that's kind of gets into some militia protest and39/142
therefore we should not cover it and I said I'm sorry you're uncomfortable with this either go get comfortable or you can just gracefully exit and he's going to be added to you I'm I don't see that I'm sorry I have been searching other than individual blockers individual producers that's why we can't remain I guess in the past that I haven't seen organization more than three four40/142
people coming together and make this a reality neck this model survive exist and thrive and that's one of the second biggest difference is that we are going to have hopefully it will be extended to Chrysler hook up as we have seen a proliferation of independent media that has a clear ideological up till or or lead and what we're talking about it news flood is pure journalist41/142
where I put aside my own of bias in order to get a source to offer me their perspective on a controversial event like the organ standoff yeah I'm neither %HESITATION you know a second amendment hunger or any extreme tree hugger %HESITATION and I can see you know balance of valid perspectives from or range on the ideological spectrum but many of us the independent outlets that we42/142
see today really are neither of promoting a left or a right perspective were a pretty clearly identified Republican or democratic up perspective well I project censored you know we do have a bias were in favor of the first amendment I am were opposed to censorship in any form including self censorship I'm we believe there should be a vibrant free press were all views have are a43/142
free pass to be heard an unobstructed or on spun I'm and we we think that people should be able to to tell their stories and present the evidence and then let people decide for themselves what it means I'm in a project censored for forty years you know we put forward stories %HESITATION some of them were troubling to to %HESITATION to different groups in the country %HESITATION44/142
but we put them forward not necessarily because we always agree with them but because we think that there are extremely important people have not only a right to hear them but we as a society should be debating these kinds of issues we should be debating the hard hard questions I'm it and it shouldn't be are and I know what you're saying here I am you know45/142
in the court encore independent media you know I'll it does it tends to skew one way or another you know what I think is kind of funny a project censored arm is that you know some people accuse us of being far left some people on the left accuse us of being far right depending on the issue I mean again I I just kinda sit around in46/142
the middle and laughed about it ambitious for a like well I guess it were angering people on this side that side the other we must be doing something right I'm horse were trying to generate discussion and debate NY may personally have a viewpoint or Peter are you Peter Phillips or any rock or associate director are you we work with Abby Martin I'm from empire files and47/142
and other people and you know again it's not that we don't have ideas or opinions so to speak but we're really interested in going after the roots of the story and that's what that's what radical journalism does it looks to the roots of the story it looks to see how is this happening why is this happening benefiting from that and you know we've gotten into a48/142
lot of trouble at the project over the years because we've dared to criticize the sacred cows of left progressive media I'm an end that that doesn't go over in left circles I can tell you I am you know we have a radio show a KPFA every week and sometimes I think that that place is like a circular firing squad you know it's like it even though49/142
we're all trying to go in and allegedly do the same things if you don't pass someone's litmus test you get kicked to the curb and yeah I'm in you know I we've been kicked to the curb so often it's kinda like you are how it's like a second home I used to broadcast live from the curb business yeah yes yes often it is are and you50/142
know we were calling out reporting Pacific reporting on Libya or Syria or whatever and I you know we we were really taken some I would say hard and unfair hits from many left and progressive journalists of of course corporate journalists if they even know about is that they don't even understand the language we speak I'm pretty much but I'm no there really is a bias in51/142
an independent media and I am in the easiest way to find it is to just follow the funding and that's what you know sit bells getting at and we by the way we are a five oh one C. three I'm at but we we don't exactly get a lot of money because the foundations that would support its once upon a time they stop supporting us when52/142
we question nine eleven they stop supporting us so we covered election fraud unapologetically up will they stop supporting us when we talk about up you know issues whether it was ranging from I you know immigration to it was a specimen civil rights and civil liberties you know there are certain groups and organizations that just draw lines when you're supporting a certain group that you're not suppose53/142
to support anymore right like you were saying earlier Peter I you know I personally am not a gun to order I'm I'm not in favor of of gun ownership so I don't own one I am but I don't think I have a place for a role in the society to tell other people I am you know what they're right is on on that front I'm and54/142
I think that we really go too far when we start guess respecting the rights of others allegedly in maintenance of our own interests and that's why is it a project says it is a first amendment organization we want vibrant debate we want reasonable discourse about gun ownership and gun regulation what we do not live in a perfect world our society we live in one whether we55/142
like it or not that's addled with regulation are so let's have intelligent conversation about what we want that to look like right we can we can talk about utopias till we're blue in the face we can talk about banning guns we can talk about everybody owning five hundred guns I am but that's not the world we live in and media journalism is supposed to tell the56/142
people what's really going on that's supposed to provide a platform for people to openly discuss and debate those ideas without filtration or infiltration pro Intel prostyle I'm and it was supposed to be able to have that discussion and if you don't have a vibrant media and if you don't have journalists that are willing to get out of their own way and let other people tell the57/142
stories I'm it worked were contributing to the problem right were contributing to the cacophony that our corporate media has has generated so and again I realize some of the things I said or things that you all might disagree with or certainly other people might disagree with but that's what the free press is for it's to hear ideas that we don't necessarily want to hear right and