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Episode 31: Project Censored and the Myth of the Free Press w/Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth
🕑 Added 2022-03-23 20:37:05 +0000 UTCAaron speaks with Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored. They discuss censorship, propaganda, and other subjects covered by Projects Censored's latest book, The State of the Free Press 2022—just released under their new publishing imprint, The Censored Press.
Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored as well as a professor of social science, history, and journalism at Diablo Valley College where he co-chairs both the History and Journalism Departments. He is also executive producer and host of The Project Censored Show, a weekly syndicated public affairs program he founded with former Project Censored director Peter Phillips in 2010. The program originates from the historic studios of KPFA, Pacifica Radio, in Berkeley CA, airs on 50 stations around the US--and is also now a podcast online.
Andy Lee Roth is the associate director of Project Censored. He coordinates the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program, a news media research network of several hundred students and faculty at two dozen colleges and universities across North America. His research and writing have been published in a variety of outlets, including Index on Censorship, In These Times, YES! Magazine, Media, Culture & Society, and the International Journal of Press/Politics. Roth earned a PhD in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has taught at a number of universities. He also serves on the board of the Media Freedom Foundation.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Stuck In" by Mock Orange
Comments
Aaron Good
They both totally support Assange.
William Stearns
Very strange interview. Didn’t want to touch Assange, hearing lots of sloganeering. Only part-way through but 🤔
John Blackman
I don’t know how I ended up leaving the above comment here but it was supposed to go with the May 2022 Zoom 🤪
John Blackman
Here’s the only thing I’ll say about George H W Bush and his inability to recall where he was the day of the assassination - I’ve never discussed the assassination with anyone who doesn’t remember exactly what they were doing the moment they heard about it. To treat him charitably, there are exceptions to everything.
John Blackman
Aaron: “Is there censorship in America”? Dude, don’t make me spit out my sip of coffee! 😂
dogsbeout
Such a great episode. Thanks for this.
Aaron Good
It isn't that per se...it's that the state can pretend to support free speech because the dirty censorship work is outsourced to ostensibly private corporations... tech monopolies who have become de facto elements of the regime due to their control of what passes for the public square.
B. Lund
i really dont understand why the guests were upset about corporations as opposed to the government silencing RT America. tax dollars subsidize pretty much all US corporations,
Aaron Good
Argentina's Kirshner also...
John McElroy
Agreed Aaron. Between the heart attack weapon technology, bio weapons programs being uncovered lately (Robbie Martin and Whitney Webb) and the fast onset cancers like Ruby, Bob Marley, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Chavez. And the Latin American leaders - not saying this is all inspired by the CIA or dirty tricks division but is weird Lula - throat cancer (Brazil) F Castro - stomach cancer (Cuba) E Morales - nasal cancer (Bolivia) F Lugo - lymphoma (Paraguay) J Layton - died of cancer NDP Canada I’m sure there is a bigger cache of targets that can be made but this is off the top of my head (not including the work of Penn Jones). Cheers!
Aaron Good
Yeah, there are some articles written about Hastings' death. I would guess that he was assassinated. With Parry it is only suspicion, but given how much he is respected and how he wrote about the Maidan coup and the Russiagate hoax, and how those events were preludes to our current media propaganda blitz w/Russia vs USkraine... well, his sudden "health alteration" seems convenient. Pancreatic cancer also killed Bill Hicks quite suddenly right as he was becoming huge... Reminds me of those Leftist Latin American leaders who all got cancer suddenly. Of course people do get cancer...which would also be the beauty of producing agents to induce it, I guess. My general rule of thumb is that if I can imagine it, some spook already has--they employ lots of people for just such purposes.
John McElroy
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html William S Burns memo from Wikileaks - I thought I posted this earlier? Anyhow, I thought your point about Parry and Hastings was interesting, in light of the Assange case too. Reminded me of the Chevron private court in Texas with the Danzinger case over foreign oil destruction/poisoning of indigenous people in Central America. Also, your spot on about Ukraine
John McElroy
Nyet means Nyet
Aaron Good
Took me a while to go back and find this because the LRB paywall seems to mess up web searches. But I finally found it reposted on someone's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/TheFreshPerspectives/posts/3007219062874735
Chris
Can we get a link to the Tarek Ali writing of the William Burns intelligence briefing?
NYCM&AHole
and even if it is propaganda, it’s not effective. Now let me tell you why the Warren report holds up…
NYCM&AHole
But but but censorship and bias in stories isn’t propaganda - very smart degree holders
