Comments on: The Top Overlooked, Underreported, Ignored and/or Censored News Stories Of The Year — Or Are They?

By: ECA

ECA — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:14:15 +0000

As I was told long ago.
Fix the little things and the BIG ones go away or they never happen.

Its like giving Aid to other nations.
HELP the Aid get to where its needed
Wonder the world and rebuild whole nations.
Bring the world into the future, DONT beat it into submission.
BUT, you also have to fix your own house before you can help others.

By: Uncle Jim

Uncle Jim — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:57:36 +0000

DU counts because somebody has an investment in it and people take an interest in it, which is why it has credibility. DU may be many things, boring isn’t one of them.

By: BryanP

BryanP — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:55:33 +0000

Hearing about something on DU doesn’t count. Anybody/Anything from there loses all credibility. They are to the left what freepers are to the right – complete fringe whackjobs who embody the worst stereotypes the rest of us have about Dems.

By: Mike Novick

Mike Novick — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:51:10 +0000

I looked through some of those WorldDaily lists and I wouldn’t call it a neo-con site, though it leans that way. More of a Christian nativist site. Complaining about the border as a conduit for terrorists, nuclear terrorism vulnerability, immigration, vulnerability of airports, bio-chip implants, Potential adverse impact to American citizens of the USA PATRIOT Act and other post-9/11 legislation and executive orders, and The impact of the Total Information Awareness program in the Office of Information Awareness in the Homeland Security Department, sounds like Dvorak Uncensored.

By: Uncle Jim

Uncle Jim — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:29:59 +0000

Sorry for preempting you Steve. Actually this idea goes back to the Kennedy Administration. The President couldn’t convince the CIA that the intelligence community plan was doomed to fail, so they ended up stuck with the original miserable failure of military adventure called the Bay of Pigs. Fast forward four decades and the same thinkers came up with the Iraqi invasion plan. We are getting better at invasion, the occupation problem still lingers. If we occupied Cuba, kicked Castro out and turned the whole thing into vacation/golf mecca not too many people are going to bitch. The quality of life can’t get much worse in Cuba. Billions of dollars of investment would flow into Cuba and the good times would roll. The whole story is ignored, overlooked or whatever because the media is focused on the rock and hard spot in Iraq which is one giant sand trap!

By: ECA

ECA — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:25:58 +0000

http://www.newsdesk.org/news/

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21206

http://www.un.org/events/tenstories/

http://www.sfbg.com/39/49/cover_censored.html

I canfind ALOT more..

By: ECA

ECA — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:01:25 +0000

Can we take all these words for Censorship and change it to,
“Underreported”

Its like when China invaded Tibet..
There was a big complaint on WHERE to put it in the paper…
It ended up on the Obit page 1 column, 2 paragraphs.

By: Steve Simpkin

Steve Simpkin — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:50:38 +0000

#9
Oh Man! I thought the tin-foil hat I was wearing would keep others from reading my mind! Damnit! Why are all my best ideas brought up by someone else before I can post them!

Steve

By: Mister Mustard

Mister Mustard — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:14:12 +0000

>>WorldNetDaily does it’s own list every year.

Yeah, but look at the bullshit stories they cite. “Keeping Terry Schiavo Alive Would Have Been a Good Thing”, and “Successes in Iraq”.

Those stories were never “spiked”, they were just neocon talking points that no credible journalist would have wasted keystrokes on. Sheesh. Leave it to WorldHateDaily.

By: Uncle Jim

Uncle Jim — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:04:14 +0000

I remain convinced that the only hope for Cuba is golf. If we sent Tiger Woods to Cuba, we would have the whole place looking like Florida in no time at all. He’s got his own big ship to get there. It’s bigger than my house. Castro would be powerless against an invasion force of American golfers. You can stop a military, you can’t stop golf. Trying to stop it would be mission impossible. This story is being overlooked. Because of golf, Cuba could become our 51st state dedicated to the pursuit of life, liberty and good Scotch.

By: AB CD

AB CD — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:47:02 +0000

WorldNetDaily does it’s own list every year.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48392

By: Uncle Jim

Uncle Jim — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:41:50 +0000

Mixing fiction with news produces a new reality or a more interesting reality. I was reading about writers being paid by the government to write about what a stinker Castro is. Like that’s news or something. Now there are reporters writing about reporters who wrote stories that were fictional, as if the reality wasn’t enough to convince readers that Castro is a stinker. I wonder who Castro is paying to write stories about how great Cuba is, because of Castro of course. Cuba is underreported, overlooked or more likely ignored. I’ve never written about Cuba. I imagine Cuba censors what Cuban writers can write about Cuba. Cuban writers can come to the United States and get paid to write about why they left Cuba and it’s suddenly newsworthy, if you are interested in Cuba. I’m sure writers in Cuba are writing about how bad the United States is. The problem is that people aren’t fleeing Florida for Cuba. There’s a good story line. Cuba attracting more retirees with low cost of living, write in Cuba.

By: Hal Jordan

Hal Jordan — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:17:53 +0000

In this day and age, censorship is unnecessary because people badly want to live normal, fun lives undistracted by any sad news about how their government attains that illusion of normalcy.
The Soylent Green era is upon us after all. It’s business as usual folks, go back in line for yer bizkits, ye cannibals.

By: Uncle Jim

Uncle Jim — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:05:27 +0000

Writing fiction is a good way to bypass censorship. It’s just fictional after all. Fiction also sells well. Here’s a starter course. Experiment.

“Write a Novel is a form of open courseware: Learning materials placed online for free use by anyone who wishes to do so. At this point, it is an experiment; if it succeeds, Capilano College may create more such guides, along the lines pioneered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/novel/

A great resource!

By: William K. Wolfrum

William K. Wolfrum — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:53:25 +0000

Also, I think the Mother Jones article is pre-9/11, so now, a group like Project Uncensored has renewed importance.

–WKW