Half a century ago, Peter Jensen launched Project Censored, in part as a response to how the Watergate break-in was covered. Richard Nixon didnโt censor the initial reporting, but he didnโt have to. The press simply didnโt cover it with any serious scrutiny until well after Nixon was elected. The story didnโt reach the American […]
Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor, Random Lengths News
Project Censored:The Top 25 Stories You Probably Missed This Year
In America, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself and limits on the power of government to restrict it. But the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in the aftermath of World War II, presents a broader framework. Article 19 reads: […]

