Censored 2019: fighting the fake news invasion: the top censored stories and media analysis of 2017-18 [Seven Stories Press first edition] 9781609808693, 9781609808709, 9780111133309, 1202400450, 160980869X

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Censored 2019: fighting the fake news invasion: the top censored stories and media analysis of 2017-18 [Seven Stories Press first edition]
 9781609808693, 9781609808709, 9780111133309, 1202400450, 160980869X

Table of contents :
Foreword: The post-truth dilemma / by Abby Martin --
Introduction / by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff --
The top censored stories and media analysis of 2017-18 / compiled and edited by Andy Lee Roth --
( Global decline in the rule of law as basic human rights diminish --
"Open-source" intelligence secrets sold to highest bidders --
World's richest one percent continue to become wealthier --
How big wireless convinced us cell phones and Wi-Fi are safe --
Washington Post bans employees from using social media to criticize sponsors --
Russiagate: two-headed monster of propaganda and censorship --
Regenerative agriculture as "next stage" of civilization --
Congress passes intrusive data sharing law under cover of spending bill --
Indigenous communities around world helping to win legal rights of nature --
FBI racially profiling "Black identity extremists" --
US Air Force seeks to control seventy percent of Nevada's Desert National Wildlife Refuge --
ICE intends to destroy records of inhumane treatment of immigrants --
The limits of negative news and importance of constructive media --
FBI paid Geek Squad employees as "confidential human source" informants --
Digital justice: internet co-ops resist net neutrality rollbacks --
$21 trillion in unaccounted-for government spending from 1998-2015 --
"Model" Mississippi curriculum omits Civil Rights Movement from school textbooks --
Adoption agencies a gateway for child exploitation --
People bussed across US to cut cities' homeless populations --
Extravagant hospital waste of unused medical supplies --
Parkland shooter's JROTC connections spotlight militarization of schools --
Big Pharma's biostitutes: corporate media ignore root cause of opioid crisis --
New restrictions on prisoners' First Amendment rights --
More than 80,000 stolen guns worsen crime in Florida --
Sheriffs using iris recognition technology along US--Mexico border) --
Blurred lines and clickbait: the sh*thole that is junk food news / by Susan Rahman and Isabelle Snow, with Tonatiuh Beltran, Tate Dobbins, Jacqualine Gibbons, Maria Granados, Christina Hamilton, Whitney Howard, Katie Wong, and Kyle Zucker --
The magic trick of establishment media: news abuse in 2017-2018 / by John Collins, Nicole Eigbrett, Jana Morgan, and Steve Peraza --
Media democracy in action / introduced by Steve Macek, with contributions by Samantha Parsons (UnKoch My Campus), Hans-Joerg Tiede (American Association of University Professors), Chenjerai Kumanyika (Uncivil), J. Spagnolo and Elle Aviv Newton (Poets Reading the News), and Eleanor Goldfield (Act Out!) --
Vetting free speech: how the United Kingdom approaches freedom of expression on campus / by Sally Gimson, Layli Foroudi, and Sean Gallagher --
#TimesUp: breaking the barriers of sexual harassment in corporate media for you and #MeToo / by Julie Frechette --
Data activism through community mapping and data visualization / by Dorothy Kidd --
How mainstream media evolved into corporate media: a Project Censored history / by Peter Phillips --
Campus-newsroom collaborations: building bridges for investigative journalism / by Patricia W. Elliot --
The public and its problems: "fake news" and the battle for hearts and minds / by Susan Maret --
Annual Report from the Media Freedom Foundation President / by Mickey Huff --
How to support Project Censored --
Artist's statement / by Anson Stevens-Bollen.

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