{"id":232,"date":"2006-09-15T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=232"},"modified":"2007-05-11T11:45:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T18:45:17","slug":"top-25-censored-news-stories-of-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 Censored News Stories Of 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project Censored<\/a> has published its 2007 list of the stories most ignored by the media. Here’s the top 10 as a teaser:<\/p>\n

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  1. Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media<\/li>\n
  2. Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran<\/li>\n
  3. Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger<\/li>\n
  4. Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US<\/li>\n
  5. High-Tech Genocide in Congo<\/li>\n
  6. Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy<\/li>\n
  7. US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq<\/li>\n
  8. Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act<\/li>\n
  9. The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall<\/li>\n
  10. Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


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    Project Censored has published its 2007 list of the stories most ignored by the media. Here’s the top 10 as a teaser: Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US High-Tech Genocide in Congo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-media","category-general","category-internet-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-3K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":0},"title":"Project Censored 2006","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/24\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Sonoma State University's Project Censored has released their 2006 edition of the top 25 stories that went unreported or under-reported by the corporate media. 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This failure on the part of the fourth estate resulted in such travesties as the war\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":553,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=553","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":5},"title":"Pearl Jam Censored At Lollapalooza By AT&T","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/9\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"If we really needed proof that the Big Telcos are lying through their teeth when they celebrate themselves as defenders of free speech and open access, we couldn't do better than this. 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