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I’ve decided to try to do a daily podcast through the month of October. I haven’t decided on a specific focus or theme just yet, so if you have any ideas let me know. Here’s my oh so exciting intro with Mindy at midnight.
When it comes to the news, it’s important that we recognize that our choice of sources is extremely important. There is a reason it’s good not to rely on just one news source (even if it is Jon Stewart). The Internet has become a great tool for us to expand our awareness on news we might never have heard about through the major media outlets. Thanks to Project Censored, I bring you their recent list of the Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006:
#1 Bush Administration
Moves to Eliminate Open Government
#2 Media
Coverage Fails on Iraq: Fallujah and the Civilian Death
#3 Another Year of
Distorted Election Coverage
#4 Surveillance Society
Quietly Moves In
#5 U.S. Uses Tsunami
to Military Advantage in Southeast Asia
#7 Journalists Face
Unprecedented Dangers to Life and Livelihood
#8 Iraqi Farmers Threatened
By Bremer’s Mandates
#9 Iran’s New
Oil Trade System Challenges U.S. Currency
#12 Military in Iraq
Contracts Human Rights Violators
#13 Rich Countries
Fail to Live up to Global Pledges
#14 Corporations Win
Big on Tort Reform, Justice Suffers
#15 Conservative Plan
to Override Academic Freedom in the Classroom
#16 U.S. Plans for
Hemispheric Integration Include Canada
#17 U.S. Uses South
American Military Bases to Expand Control of the Region
#18 Little Known Stock
Fraud Could Weaken U.S. Economy
#19 Child Wards of
the State Used in AIDS Experiments
#20 American Indians
Sue for Resources; Compensation Provided to Others
#21 New Immigration
Plan Favors Business Over People
#22 Nanotechnology
Offers Exciting Possibilities But Health Effects Need Scrutiny
#23 Plight of Palestinian
Child Detainees Highlights Global Problem
#24 Ethiopian Indigenous
Victims of Corporate and Government Resource Aspirations
#25 Homeland Security
Was Designed to Fail
And to see what the future holds… here’s the stories of 2007.
(h.t. Ka-Bar)
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