On this episode of the Project Censored Show, co-host Mickey Huff sits down with the second director of Project Censored and co-founder of this program, Dr. Peter Phillips. He edited 14 editions of the Project’s annual book and author of Giants: The Global Power Elite and Titans of Capital. They spoke about the history of Project Censored, how censorship has changed and grown, remaining a fixture a society that purports to cherish press freedoms and free speech. Peter shared some stories of his times at the Project, and from the times of his predecessor, the founder of Project Censored, Dr. Carl Jensen, who launched the Project as a college class in 1976.
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Dr. Peter Phillips is a Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University since 1994, former Director of Project Censored 1996 to 2010 and President of Media Freedom Foundation 2003 to 2017. He has been editor or co-editor of fourteen editions of Censored, co-editor with Dennis Loo of Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney 2006, editor of two editions of Progressive Guide to Alternative Media and Activism 1999 & 2004. He was a co-host of the weekly Project Censored show on Pacifica Radio with Mickey Huff 2010 to 2017 originating from KPFA in Berkeley and airing on forty stations nationwide.
This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kiley Eriksen.