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Project Censored’s annual list of buried news stories hits half-century mark.
Project Censored—Part I
Anson Stevens-Bollen Half a century ago, Peter Jensen launched Project Censored, in part as a response to how the Watergate break-in was covered. Richard Nixon didn’t censor the initial reporting, but he didn’t have to. The press simply didn’t cover it with any serious scrutiny until well after Nixon was re-elected.
The story didn’t reach the American people when it mattered most—when they could have done something about it directly themselves, before they went to the polls in November 1972. Reflecting this, Jensen saw censorship as working differently in a democracy than in a dictatorship.
He…
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