Censorship is defined as "the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method — including bias, omission, underreporting or self-censorship — that prevents the public from fully knowing what is happening in society."
Since its founding in 1976, Project Censored has been focused on stories that aren't censored by an authoritarian government, but in this broader, expanded sense. There's a reason that journalism enjoys special protection in the First Amendment: Without the free flow of vital information, government based on the consent of the governed is but an illusory dream.
Yet, from the very beginning, as A.J. Liebling put it, "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
Obviously, this was written before Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, but Liebling's observation perfectly frames the majority of stories in Project Censored's top 10 list. Undue corporate influence is there from the beginning with the first two stories: massive subsidies of the fossil fuel industry and rampant wage theft. It echoes clearly through the stories on Congress members' investments in the fossil fuel industry, the role of corporate consolidation in driving up inflation in food prices, Bill Gates' hidden influence on journalism, and major media outlets lobbying against regulation of surreptitious online advertising. And it operates at only a slight remove in others having to do with dark money and the suppression of Environmental Protection Agency reports...
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