Project Censored

On this special edition of the Project Censored Show, the co-editors of Poets Reading the News 

spend the hour looking back at some of the most important news stories of 2017, expressed via poetry. 

Elle Aviv Newton and Jenna Spagnolo present a dozen poems, each read by its author, addressing issues 

from gun violence to opiod deaths to global warming. 

 

Notes:

Web site mentioned on this program:

www.poetsreadingthenews.com

 

This week, we present a speech delivered in April by the Project Censored Show's co-host Mickey Huff. 

His topic was "Critical Media Literacy: the Antidote to Fake News." He spoke at Sonoma State University, 

as one of the campus's Social Justice Week events.

Mickey Huff is director of Project Censored, co-host of the Project Censored radio program, and co-chair of 

the History department at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay area.

Authors Peter Dale Scott and David Talbot join Mickey for a discussion of the now-popular phrase "deep state," 

and its implications. They also share their thoughts on the best way forward for the left in the Trump era.

Peter Dale Scott is a retired diplomat and prolific author on politics and history; among his books are "Deep Politics 

and the Death of JFK," and "Drugs, Oil and War." David Talbot is the founder of Salon.com, and now a columnist for 

the San Francisco Chronicle; his most recent book is "The Devil's Chessboard."  

 

This is a rebroadcast of the Project Censored program of March 13, 2017

Notes: 

Web sites mentioned on this program:
www.peterdalescott.net 
www.whowhatwhy.com

Mickey's first guest is the multitalented Eleanor Goldfield. An artist, writer and social activist, 

she explains the connections between art and activism, as well as some of the many campaigns she's involved with, 

including net neutrality, pipeline safety, and alternative energy.

In the second half of the show, Project Censored associate director Andy Lee Roth joins Mickey for a discussion 

about the political history of "fake news." They also summarize some of the stories in Censored 2018, 

Project Censored's latest annual look at underreported stories and the state of journalism.

 

Program Notes:

 

Eleanor Goldfield is the creator of www.artkillingapathy.com

Andy Lee Roth teaches sociology at Citrus College in Southern California.

Web sites mentioned in this week's show:
www.artkillingapathy.com
www.battleforthenet.com
www.protectourinternet.org
www.verizonprotests.com
www.fightforthefuture.org
www.colorofchange.org
www.freepress.net
www.eff.org
www.opensecrets.org
www.defendj20resistance.org

www.projectcensored.org

  

For the first segment of the show, Mickey and Michael speak with independent journalist Dave Lindorff. 

In a recent Salon.com article, Lindorff contends that corporate-media denunciations of "fake news" 

are also intended to undermine the credibility of non-corporate alternative media.

Then Nolan Higdon joins the show as a guest, for a discussion of how to teach media literacy, 

despite neoliberal education doctines that deemphasize critical thinking and civic participation.

 

Program Notes:

 

Dave Lindorff is a widely-published independent journalist. His work is collected at www.thiscantbehappening.net. 

Nolan Higdon teaches communications and history at several colleges in the San Francisco Bay area.

Web sites mentioned in this week's show:
www.thiscantbehappening.net
www.salon.com
www.counterpunch.org
www.acmesmartmediaeducation.net
www.gcml.org
  

As President Trump tries to undo the DACA program, Nolan and Nicholas 

speak with two young adults who were able to stay in the U.S. under DACA, 

but now face the possibility of deportation. Also on the show, a roundtable 

discussion about the FCC's plan to allow even more media-ownership consolidation.

 

 

Hosts: Nolan Higdon and Nicholas Baham

 

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The first guest, documentary producer Robbie Leppzer, discusses his latest work, Power Struggle. 

It's an account of the grassroots campaign to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, 

and the problems that remain after the plant's closure. Next, nuclear-power critics Arnie and 

Maggie Gunderson return to Project Censored to explain some of the continuing hazards facing 

Fukushima, Japan, years after the meltdown there. Finally, Poets Reading the News make 

a second appearance on the show.

 

Notes:

 

Robbie Leppzer is a film producer with over 30 documentaries to his credit.

Arnie and Maggie Gunderson left careers in the nuclear power industry to 

devote themselves to educating the public about nuclear power's hazards.

Elle Aviv Newton and Jenna Spagnolo are the co-editors of Poets Reading the News.

Web sites mentioned on this week's program:
www.turningtide.com
www.powerstrugglemovie.com
www.fairewinds.org

www.poetsreadingthenews.org

Peter and Mickey spend the hour in conversation with author Carol Anderson. 

Her latest book, "White Rage," chronicles the history of white resistance and obstruction

to African-American equality, from the Reconstruction period to modern times.

 

Notes:

 

Carol Anderson is Professor of African-American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. 

Her previous works include "Eyes Off the Prize" and "Bourgeois Radicals."  

 

This is a rebroadcast of the Project Censored Show of June 27, 2016. 

Then, in the wake of the latest sexual-harassment scandals in Hollywood, media scholar Julie Frechette joins the show for a discussion of the #MeToo campaign, and how corporate media portrays issues of sexual harassment and violence, within and beyond the entertainment industry.

 

Notes:

Pratap Chatterjee is Executive Director of Corp Watch, and a veteran investigative journalist; 

his books include Halliburton's Army and Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation. 

Khalil Bendib is a political cartoonist and radio journalist.

Julie Frechette is Professor of Communication at Worcester State University in Massachusetts, 

and also co-president of the Action Coalition for Media Education.

Web sites mentioned on this week's program:
www.veraxcomic.net 
www.corpwatch.org
www.bendib.com 
www.acmesmartmediaeducation.net 

www.juliefrechette.com

For the first half of the program, Mickey speaks with Rachel Jollie of Index on Censorship,  who explains the vital role of radio in breaking through governments' attempts to control  the flow of information. Next, Michael Levitin interviews Anna Callahan with The Incorruptibles,  about recruiting and electing authentic grassroots candidates to local office. Finally, Mickey speaks  with Elle Aviv Newton of Poets Reading the News, a year-old online newspaper that presents journalism via poetry.

 

Notes:

Rachel Jollie is editor at Index on Censorship, a UK-based organization that tracks government 

suppression of media and free speech across the globe. Anna Callahan is an organizer with

The Incorruptibles. Elle Aviv Newtonis cofounder and editor-in-chief of Poets Reading the News.

 

Web sites mentioned on this week's program:
www.indexoncensorship.org 
www.theincorruptibles.us 

www.poetsreadingthenews.com