The Real Fight Against Fake News: Project Censored's Top 10 Underreported Stories in 2018
Fake news is not a new thing. With the return of its annual list of censored stories in Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake News Invasion, Project Censored’s vivid cover art recalls H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.
The situation today may feel as desolate as the cover art suggests.
“But Censored 2019 is a book about fighting fake news,” editors Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff observed in the book’s introduction.
In the end, they argued that “critical media education — rather than censorship, blacklists, privatized fact-checkers, or legislative bans — is the best weapon for fighting the ongoing fake news invasion.”
Project Censored’s annual list of 25 censored stories, which makes up the book’s lengthy first chapter, is one of the best resources one can have for such an education.
Censorship and fake news are “intertwined issues” they write.
Project Censored has long been engaged in much more than just uncovering and publicizing stories kept down and out of the corporate media. Over the years it’s added new analytical categories: sensationalist and titillating Junk Food News stories.
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2018/12/04/the-real-fight-against-fake-news-project-censoreds-top-10-underreported-stories-in-2018
