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Friday, September 24, 2004
Gatekeepers, media bias. This story about Project Censored touches on a variety of important questions for and about journalism today. Pressing issues / Sonoma State's Project Censored takes the media to task for missing big stories: "'We have a big problem today in that half the people don't vote,' he said. 'We need stories about the issues that face us, whether it's the spiraling decline of wages in the country, or the 40 million people without health insurance, or the accelerated gap between rich and poor in the Bush administration. This is new information. It's just assumed that growth is good for everybody, and it's not. There's an assumption that private enterprise is the most effective means of organizing society, and it's rarely challenged in American society.'"
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