by Carl Jensen

About the author: Carl Jensen is a professor emeritus of communications studies at Sonoma State University and the founder of Project Censored, a media research project that attempts to identify issues that are systematically omitted by the U.S. mass media.

Project Censored was founded in 1976 as a seminar in mass media at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California.

The primary objective of Project Censored is to explore and publicize the extent of news censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for a variety of reasons.

Since its inception, the Project has hoped to stimulate journalists to provide more news coverage of under-reported issues and to encourage the general public to demand more coverage of those issues by the media and to...