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Breaking ICE: Community Self Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism. This week on Rising Up for Justice, our guest is Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. He is the president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation and author of multiple books.
ROUGH TRANSCRIPT:
Mickey Huff: It's really an honor to be back with you, and I appreciate the opportunity to talk about 50 years of Project Censored. So thanks for having us on your program.
Sonali Kolhatkar: Absolutely. It's something that I have relied on over the years. I own multiple copies of the various editions, and for people who aren't familiar with it, we're going to get right into it. So let's start with what Project Censored is. It sounds like something nefarious or something edgy, something a little radical. What is Project Censored? What are its main goals?
Huff: Well, thanks again for the opportunity to talk about the project. We were founded in 1976 in Northern California at Sonoma State University by a communications person, someone who had a journalism and advertising background, Carl Jensen. He started the communications program there. And Carl had a real love for news, and he thought of himself as someone that was pretty news savvy.
And what happened in the early to mid-'70s, there was a lot of turmoil and change, and things happening in the United States. And one of the things that really struck him was not just the Nixon scandals, Watergate in particular, and his ultimate resignation, but it was the role the press played. And it wasn't just the sort of Hollywood version of the press as savior, and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as great heroes saving democracy.
