The top 25 stories of 2004 and 2005 / Kate Sims ... [et al.] -- Déjà vu: updates on prior censored news : Haiti : diplomacy by death squad, U.S. and global wealth inequality, Alien tort claims act, Bush censors scientists, Dangers of depleted uranium, The federalist society & the Christian legal society, 9/11 RICO lawsuit, New nuke plants, Fox news can legally lie, Reinstating the draft, Voter fraud & the sale of electoral politics -- No paper trail left behind : the theft of the 2004 election / Dennis Loo -- Unanswered questions of 9/11 / Peter Phillips ... [et al.] -- Junk food news and news abuse / Mark Thompson ... [et al.] -- Corporate media is corporate America / Bridget Thornton, Britt Walters and Lori Rouse -- Media democracy in action / Project censored interns -- Pulling back the curtain: the best of PR watch / Laura Miller -- FAIR's fifth annual "Fear & favor" report, 2004 / Peter Hart and Julie Hollar -- Index on censorship: annual report / Rohan Jayasekera -- Non-embedded reporting from Iraq / Dahr Jamail -- Political economy of mass media / Ann Strahm -- U.S. military and media / Robin Andersen ... [et al.] -- Junk library science / Geoff Davidian and Project Censored interns -- Cowardice and conflicts : the lynching of Dan Rather / Greg Palast.

Several of the stories pursued in the yearbook of events underreported in the mainstream media are related to the US occupation of Iraq. But there are plenty from other parts of the world and particularly the US, including serious inroads on open government, distorted coverage of the last presidential election, and the use of child wards of the state in AIDS experiments. Phillips (sociology, Sonoma State U.) and some 250 contributors (staff, students, faculty, community experts, research interns, and a national panel of judges) also rank and analyze the most frivolous and overcovered stories; provide a comprehensive review of the state of the media; and highlight the expanding media democracy movement around the world.

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