Censored 2003: The Top 25 Censored Stories Book

Censored 2002/03 highlights the year's 25 most underreported news stories, alerting readers to the deficiencies of corporate media. Familiar sections like "Junk Food News" remain, but this year's edition takes a more interactive role in exposing censored stories and includes a full resource guide and updates on independent journalism to help readers take part in the growing media and democracy movement. This series has twice won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.

Publishers Weekly

Although its table of contents reads like a list of stories from any issue of The Onion, every one of the articles in Censored 2003: The Top 25 Censored Stories are true. With chapter titles like "United States' Policies in Columbia Support Mass Murder," "U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water System" and "Bush Appoints Former Criminals to Key Government Roles," the collection covers important news stories that were censored for various reasons. In his introduction, Robert W. McChesney laments the "deplorable" coverage of three of the past year's major stories: the war on terrorism, the Enron scandal and the 2000 presidential election. The articles, selected by Peter Phillips and Project Censored, range from an explanation of how NAFTA has ruined rural farmers in North America to a look at how the federal government bails out failing private prisons. Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow are sprinkled throughout.