Need help: Important stories not reported.

[BloodyWilliam]

I'm doing a term paper for my journalism ethics class and I'm addressing the mainstream media trend to not cover stories that are actually important to the people, and rather cover crap like Kobe and Lacy Peterson. I recall several sites and magazines that carried the "top ten stories never reported" or "greatest stories never reported" or something similar... can anyone help me out?

[neuvocat]

1. Black Box voting

and hiding the coffins of dead U.S. soldiers for starters.

[Dookus]

2. try ProjectCensored

http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2004/

[BlueEyedSon]

3. "Project Censored" is the gold standard.....

Censored 2004: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003

#1: The Neoconservative Plan for Global Dominance
#2: Homeland Security Threatens Civil Liberty
#3: US Illegally Removes Pages from Iraq U.N. Report
#4: Rumsfeld's Plan to Provoke Terrorists
#5: The Effort to Make Unions Disappear
#6: Closing Access to Information Technology
#7: Treaty Busting by the United States
#8: US/British Forces Continue Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons Despite Massive Evidence of Negative Health Effects
#9: In Afghanistan: Poverty, Women's Rights, and Civil Disruption Worse than Ever
#10: Africa Faces Threat of New Colonialism
#11: U.S. Implicated in Taliban Massacre
#12: Bush Administration Behind Failed Military Coup in Venezuela
#13: Corporate Personhood Challenged
#14: Unwanted Refugees a Global Problem
#15: U.S. Military's War on the Earth
#16: Plan Puebla-Panama and the FTAA
#17: Clear Channel Monopoly Draws Criticism
#18: Charter Forest Proposal Threatens Access to Public Lands
#19: U.S. Dollar vs. the Euro: Another Reason for the Invasion of Iraq
#20: Pentagon Increases Private Military Contracts
#21: Third World Austerity Policies: Coming Soon to a City Near You
#22: Welfare Reform Up For Reauthorization, but Still No Safety Net
#23: Argentina Crisis Sparks Cooperative Growth
#24: Aid to Israel Fuels Repressive Occupation in Palestine
#25: Convicted Corporations Receive Perks Instead of Punishment

Link: http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2004/

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. Here are some links:

http://www.failureisimpossible.com/needtoknow/media.htm

http://www.earthisland.org/project/newsPage2.cfm?newsID=491&pageID=177&subSiteID=44

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. How about a nice story on the looting of the World Financial Center

by so-called "guards" and "emergency workers" after the 9-11 attacks?

Also, the looting of the apartment buildings nearby? (though the apartment looting was likely mostly homeless people; but the financial center, which was locked down tighter than a drum since it was part of the "war zone", had incredible looting, and it wasn't the homeless who were doing it).

Looting - we're talking, my company lost hundreds of computers; I had stuff stolen from my desk; the people I worked with who left purses and other personal stuff, all their money, credit cards, even eye glasses, were stolen. They got their purses - one guy got his eyeglass *case* back, that's why we know they stole glasses - but everything of value was taken out of them.

Now there's a story that wasn't allowed to be told on the national news, but it's there, and it's true. I heard many stories from people who had apartments there, who had to evacuate, who came back to completely looted apartments.

Pisses me off totally, because I know the only people who could have looted the financial center are cops, firement, emergency workers, and others who were legitimately supposed to be there. The so-called "heroes" of 9-11.

(and please, I don't discount that there were and are many, many, many definite and true heroes of 9-11; but I'm really pissed that the truth was ignored, that some of those heroes had some pretty low morals).

[Scaramouche]

6. Al Franken covers the sloppiness in the News Media...

in his book Lying Liars...

He calls it greed, but the economics are an important part of stories covered. Investigative journalism requires time and energy. The pablum we get is because the other stuff is expensive. It costs to have foreign bureaus.

There is a trend to send out journalist with a camera, let them shoot the piece themselves, and then edit it. Unfortunately this is less for less.

Hope this helps...