Media Censorship: Project Censored 2015: Top Ten News Stories Which The Media Chose to Ignore
When Sonoma State University
professor Carl Jensen started looking into the new media’s practice of
self-censorship in 1976, the internet was only a dream and most
computers were still big mainframes with whirling tape reels and vacuum
tubes.
professor Carl Jensen started looking into the new media’s practice of
self-censorship in 1976, the internet was only a dream and most
computers were still big mainframes with whirling tape reels and vacuum
tubes.
Back then, the vast majority of
Americans got all of their news from one daily newspaper and one of the
three big TV networks. If a story wasn’t on ABC, NBC, or CBS, it might
as well not have happened.
Americans got all of their news from one daily newspaper and one of the
three big TV networks. If a story wasn’t on ABC, NBC, or CBS, it might
as well not have happened.
Forty years later, the media world
is a radically different place. Today, Americans are more likely to get
their news from several different sources through Facebook than they
would from CBS Evening News. Daily newspapers all over the country are
struggling and, in some cases, dying. A story that appears on one
obscure outlet can suddenly become a viral sensation reaching millions
of readers at the speed of light.
is a radically different place. Today, Americans are more likely to get
their news from several different sources through Facebook than they
would from CBS Evening News. Daily newspapers all over the country are
struggling and, in some cases, dying. A story that appears on one
obscure outlet can suddenly become a viral sensation reaching millions
of readers at the speed of light.
