From one of the groups connected to Robert Mcchesney’s Free Press and the net neutrality movement, an attempt to justify government regulations of the media, government control, on the premise that corporate involvement in the news media is censorship, but somehow the government will be completely benign..

[1] http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/09/21/analysis-of-project-censored-are-we-a-left-leaning-conspiracy-oriented-organization/

Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leaning, Conspiracy-Oriented Organization?

By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

—Frederick Douglass

Critics of Project Censored often declare that we are a left-leaning organization. This is an interesting claim, given that over 200 faculty and students from multiple disciplines and political orientations work with Project Censored each year.  Over 1,500 students have been trained in media research techniques since we began in 1976, and it would be hard to find a more mainstream, mostly Californian college student body.

Critical thinking and fact finding are not left leaning, they are the basis of democracy, and we proudly stand for the maximization of informed participatory democracy at the lowest possible level in society.  To this end, Project Censored supports social justice and media democracy in action.