SF Bay Guardian on Project Censored and 9/11
The preface to Censored 2011 offers a harsh critique of mainstream news. "In America, unsubstantiated opinions, rumors, and gossip surrounding important issues masquerade as real news," it states. "We live in a propaganda culture where factual information is routinely censored by degree." To be sure, public relations outfits and staged press events routinely influence the content of the daily news, and media watchdog groups often spotlight the fiction or ...
Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff Respond to Chip Berlet
Outrageously, Berlet categorizes progressive intellectuals such as Peter Dale Scott, Michael Parenti, David Ray Griffin, Michel Chossudovsky, and by innuendo the two of us, as dangerous conspiracists. He uses a straw person technique by positing former LaRouche analyst Webster Tarpley, and the Church of God Evangelistic Association founder David J. Smith in the same category as the progressive intellectuals listed above. ... In his recent essay "Toxic to Democracy,” Political Research Associates Senior Analyst Chip ...
