Mainstream Media

I'm changing the topic a little bit this week. One of my professors mentioned last week that there are only five major corporations that control the media. Although I have heard this before, I never found the time to look into it. I decided this is the perfect opportunity. So here is an article about a book titled "Into the Buzzsaw" that consists of 18 individual stories of award-winning journalists who are shunned by main-stream media for their efforts to unveil controversial stories such as "the CIA's role in drug smuggling, lies perpetuated by the investigators of TWA flight 800, POWs rotting in Vietnam, a Korean war massacre, the disenfranchisement of black voters in Bush's election, bovine growth hormone's dangers and a host of other unpopular issues." Check it out-- the book may provide some interesting reading.

If you want to research the topic a little, this page has a ton of links and lists pertinent books. There are also some good quotes on the main page.

Or you can check out this page, Project Censored. It annually puts out the top 25 censored newsstories of the year.