Censored : the news that didn't make the news--and why : the 1996 project censored yearbook / Carl Jensen and project censored ; introduction by Walter Cronkite ; cartoons by Tom Tomorrow.

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Introduction : "Let the chips fall where they may" / Walter Cronkite -- U.S. Censorship in 1995 -- The top 25 censored news stories of 1995 : Telecommunications deregulation : closing up America's "Marketplace of ideas" -- The budget does not have to be balanaced on the backs of the poor -- Child labor in the U.S. is worse today than during the 1930s -- The privatization of the Internet -- U.S. pushes nuclear pact but spends billions to add bang to nukes -- Radical plan from Newt Gingrich's think tank to gut FDA -- Russia injects earth with nuke waste -- Medical fraud costs the nation $100 billion annually -- or more -- U.S.Chemical industry fights for toxic ozone-killing pesticide -- The broken promises of NAFTA -- Giant oil companies owe U.S. more than $1.5 billion -- 180,000 patients die annually from treatment in hospitals -- Congress wants to take the money and run -- The Gulf War syndrome -- The rebirth of slavery in the dark heart of Sudan -- Fiberglass -- the carcinogen that's deadly and everywhere -- Small arms wreak major worldwide havoc -- Scientific support for needle exchange programs suppressed -- Solving the nuclear waste problem with taxpayers' dollars -- ABC spikes new tobacco exposé when sued for libel -- The new 3R's : reading, writing, and reloading -- There may be a cure -- up there in the rain forest -- Dioxin : still deadly after all these years (and all that hype) -- U.S. trails most developed nations in maternal health ranking -- E.Coli -- now a national epidemic -- kills 500 Americans Annually -- Comments by project censored judges. Top censored books of 1995 -- Censored déj{grave}a vu of 1995 -- The junk food news stories of 1995 -- An eclectic chronology of censorship from 605 BC to 1996.

The yearly volumen s of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of judges. Each of the top stories is presented at length, alongside updates from the investigative reporters who broke the stories. Beyond the Top 25 stories, additional chapters delve further into timely media topics.