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Censored 2005: The Top 25 Censored Stories

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"Does censorship of the press exist in the United States? For the past twenty-six years Project Censored has answered YES, producing its acclaimed yearbook, Censored."

Okay, we're a bit biased about this book. After all, we went out to Berkeley a couple of weeks to pick up an award for BuzzFlash, which received the number one prize for top "censored" story of 2004. It was for our interview with David Cay Johnston about the widening income gap in America between the rich and the poor.

Why is this story considered censored? Well, how often do you hear, in the discussion of Bush's highway robbery tax cuts, that the wealthy in America just keep getting a larger share of the pie and the middle class and poor a smaller one?

In the biggest sham, right up there with the Iraq War, Bush has been able to convince red state working class voters that he is giving them money back, while he is picking their pockets and giving their earnings to the wealthy in the form of gargantuan tax breaks. But no one talks about it much. Maybe it's because the television journalists themselves benefit from the greatest economic rip-off of the middle class and our poor in our history.

Project Censored is an amazing project of Sonoma State University that honors 25 top stories every year that the mainstream media is ignoring. BuzzFlash was also honored for Maureen Farrell's coverage of the Bush draft. We couldn't be prouder.

But don't take our word for it. Read this book, chock full of stories you won't read in the mainstream press -- and additional information you won't find elsewhere.

We didn't even submit an entry and ended up winning. How's that for a contest!

Hey, the people who write the stories in this book should be the mainstream press. Our government would be vastly different if that were the case, because Americans might get a handle on the truth instead of propaganda.

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