Censored 1998: The News That Didn't Make the News, Peter Phillips and Project
Censored, Seven Stories Press, 1998
This is a yearly chronicle of news stories that never made it to the mainstream media. For regular consumers of mainstream news, one might think that little happened in 1997 aside from Marv Albert, O.J. Simpson, Tiger Woods and Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford. They would be very wrong.
Among the subjects covered in this book: personal care and cosmetic products may be carcinogenic; exposing the global surveillance system; evidence is mounting of the dangers of fluoridation - with little benefit for your teeth; toxins and environmental pollution are contributing to human aggression in society; profits before people delays release of a new AIDS drug; and the number 1 censored story of 1997: the Clinton Administration is aggressively promoting US arms sales worldwide.
Censored is a good one-word reason why few, or none, of these stories were seen on the TV news or in the newspaper. Most American media are owned by a dozen (or fewer) corporations, much more interested in profit margins than in telling the public what it needs to know.
This book also contains hundreds of names and addresses of alternative organizations that deal with these issues on a daily basis.
Terms like important, vital, highly recommended and must read all apply to this book. Multiple copies of Censored 1998 belong in every newsroom in America.
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