1:00 PM Pacific Time: Fridays
The Project Censored Show is a weekly public affairs program that airs Fridays from 1-2 P.M. Pacific time on KPFA Pacifica Radio. The program is an extension of the work Project Censored began in 1976 celebrating independent journalism while fighting media censorship and supporting a truly free press. The program focuses on The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy. The program began broadcasting in 2010 and is nationally syndicated on over 20 stations.
In the first half of the show, Libertie Valance and Cindy Barukh Milstein join host Eleanor Goldfield to talk about how a small co-op bookshop in Asheville, NC came to be the keeper of more than 20,000 youth books banned in Florida, as well as the emergence of the Banned Books Back! initiative and how … Continued
A new book edited by a trio of media scholars tracks the spread of censorship across countries and across the media spectrum. All three co-editors join Mickey to explain their disturbing findings. Then, Mickey and co-host Eleanor Goldfield discuss the widely published story of supposed mass rape by Hamas fighters on October 7, and the … Continued
This week’s show is preempted by special fund drive programming.
On this KPFA fundraising special, filmmaker and media-studies professor Roger Stahl describes the surprising breadth and depth of Pentagon and CIA control over Hollywood movies and television shows. His 2022 documentary, “Theaters of War,” examined how the military demands script changes as the price of its cooperation with producers, with the aim of favorably portraying … Continued
In this special fund drive episode, Kevin Gosztola delivers the latest news about the Julian Assange case, including Assange’s final judicial appeal in the UK against US efforts to extradite him and the consequences an Espionage Act trial of Assange could hold for journalists worldwide.
Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week. In the first segment, a French farmer explains the complex politics behind the recent wave of mass protests by farmers, as well as the economic squeeze that government policies impose on them. Next, in a brief “intermission,” Eleanor and Mickey discuss recent failures of corporate media and consider whether old … Continued
In the opening segment, we learn about a case study in “regulatory capture.” Mickey’s guests explain how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declined to enforce its own concentration-of-ownership rules and thereby permitted Sinclair Broadcasting to control more TV stations than the rules allow. These guests also recount the years they spent in litigation to force … Continued
Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show. Her first guest, Alan MacLeod, explains how some of the largest media institutions slant their Gaza coverage to favor Israel and even dismiss journalists who don’t comply. He also warns of a neocon effort to push the U.S. into attacking Iran. The second half of the show … Continued
Mickey’s guests for the hour are Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, coauthors of the 2023 book, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy. Fearful of what a second Trump administration might bring, Grob and Roth point to the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s as a case study in how rapidly … Continued
For one of their first programs of 2024, Mickey and Eleanor again focus on the legal case of Julian Assange and the implication for press freedom in the U.S. and abroad. In a recently recorded interview, independent journalist Kevin Gosztola tells Mickey about the latest legal developments, including the lawsuit against the CIA. Then we … Continued
