On this episode of the Project Censored Show, co-host Mickey Huff speaks with the publisher of The Progressive Magazine, Norman Stockwell. Stockwell is a veteran of independent media, including in broadcasting. Stockwell reviews how he and other independent journalists utilized emerging technologies to get their stories to the public when corporate media couldn’t be bothered to report factually about everything from the 1999 Seattle uprising against globalization and the WTO to the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on repeated false claims of them having WMDs, which were never located, but the war trudged on and the establishment press was not held accountable. They wrap up by talking about how independent journalists need to continue to use the tools at their disposal in an even noisier media climate today.
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Norman Stockwell is publisher of The Progressive. Previously, for more than twenty years, he served as WORT Community Radio’s Operations Coordinator in Madison, Wisconsin. He also coordinated the IraqJournal website in 2002-2003. In 2011, he regularly reported on protests in Madison for Iran’s PressTV and other outlets. His reports and interviews have appeared on Free Speech Radio News, DemocracyNow!, and AirAmerica, and in print in Z Magazine, the Capital Times, AlterNet, Toward Freedom, the Tico Times, the Feminist Connection, and elsewhere. He is co-editor of the book REBEL REPORTING: John Ross Speaks to Independent Journalists.
This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kiley Eriksen.