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DESCRIPTION:Friday, January 16, 7 pm, at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian 
 Universalists\n1924 Cedar St. (at Bonita)\n \nPROJECT CENSORED 2009\n 
 \nCome and hear Dr. Peter Phillips, longtime Director of Sonoma State 
 University's Project Censored, and PC Assistant Director Mickey Huff detail 
 the last year's most important and unreported news stories and social 
 issues, and the unique process~ for-credit college course-work~ that 
 produces this crucial investigative work as we celebrate and promote the 
 most recent publication of "Censored: Media Democracy in Action." Books 
 will be for sale. Haitian great Diego Jameau, "The Whistler," will offer 
 music. Audience Q & A with Professors Phillips and Huff will follow the 
 presentation.\n \n$10-20 requested donation (no one turned away); 
 wheelchair accessible; information: (510) 527-7543\n\n \n  \nFounded by 
 Carl Jensen in 1976, Project Censored is a media research program working 
 in cooperation with numerous independent media groups in the US. Project 
 Censored’s principle objective is the training of SSU students in media 
 research and First Amendment issues and the advocacy for, and protection 
 of, free press rights in the United States.  Project Censored has trained 
 over 1,500 students in investigative research in the past three decades. 
 \nThrough a partnership of faculty, students, and the community, Project 
 Censored conducts research on important national news stories that are 
 underreported, ignored, misrepresented, or censored by the US corporate 
 media. Each year, Project Censored publishes a ranking of the top 25 most 
 censored nationally important news stories in the yearbook, Censored: Media 
 Democracy in Action, which is released in September. Recent Censored books 
 have been published in Spanish, Italian and Arabic.\nThe Project works in 
 cooperation with SSU academic classes Sociology of Media and Sociology of 
 Censorship, where students earn credit for their research and participate 
 in writing the annual yearbook. Additionally, Project Censored sponsors and 
 supervises over 60 student interns a year who do in depth investigative 
 research, sponsor campus events and speakers, and organize an annual 
 national Media Accountability Conference. Students also participate in 
 writing the Project Censored quarterly newsletter (circulation 9,000) and 
 assist with maintaining the Project Censored website 
 www.projectcensored.org, which receives over a million views a month from 
 all over the world.\nBetween 700 and 1000 stories are submitted to Project 
 Censored each year from journalists, scholars, librarians, and concerned 
 citizens around the world. With the help of more than 200 Sonoma State 
 University faculty, students, and community members, Project Censored 
 reviews the story submissions for coverage, content, reliability of sources 
 and national significance. The university community selects 25 stories to 
 submit to the Project Censored panel of judges who then rank them in order 
 of importance. Current or previous national judges include: Noam Chomsky, 
 Susan Faludi, George Gerbner, Sut Jhally, Frances Moore Lappe, Michael 
 Parenti, Herbert I. Schiller, Barbara Seaman, Erna Smith, Mike Wallace and 
 Howard Zinn. All 25 stories are featured in the yearbook, Censored: The 
 News That Didn’t Make the News.\nProject Censored is administered through 
 the SSU Sociology Department with financial support from the SSU 
 Instructionally Related Activity Fund, School of Social Science, Media 
 Freedom Foundation Inc. and donations from thousands of supporters around 
 the country.\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/07/18559410.php
SUMMARY:Project Censored 2009
LOCATION:Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists\n1924 Cedar St. (at 
 Bonita)\nBerkeley CA 94709
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/07/18559410.php
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