Archive for the Category ‘Top 25 of 1999’

25. ABC Broadcasts Slanted Report on Mumia Abu-Jamal

25. ABC Broadcasts Slanted Report on Mumia Abu-Jamal

Sources: REFUSE AND RESIST, Title: “A Case Study in Irresponsible Journalism,” http://www.walrus.com/~resist/mumia/061881kgov.html, Authors: C. Clark Kissinger and Leonard Weinglass; REVOLUTIONARY WORKER, Title: “KGO-TV Report: A Case Study in Irresponsible Journalism,” Date: June 28, 1998, Authors: C. Clark Kissinger and Leonard Weinglass SSU Censored Researchers: Tom Ladegaard, Jason Sanders, and Corrie Robb SSU Faculty Evaluator: Elizabeth Martinez [...]

24. Coca-Cola Fails to Meet Recycling Pledge

24. Coca-Cola Fails to Meet Recycling Pledge

Source: EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL, Title: “Coca-Cola: Recycling Outlaw,” Date: Winter 1998, Author: Marti Matsch SSU Censored Researchers: Jason Bothwell and Aimee Polacci SSU Faculty Evaluator: Mary Gomes In the next 24 hours U.S. consumers will use 50 million #1 polethyene therephthalate (PET) plastic soda bottles. As quickly as we throw them away, the plastic bottle [...]

23. Bureau of Land Management Charged With Human Rights Violations Against the Shoshone Nation

23. Bureau of Land Management Charged With Human Rights Violations Against the Shoshone Nation

Source: NEWS FROM INDIAN COUNTRY: THE NATION’S NATIVE JOURNAL, Title: “BLM fines Western Shoshone $564,000 Despite OAS Request,” Date: May 1998, Vol. 12, No. 9, Author: Pat Calliotte SSU Censored Researchers: Amy Loucks and Corrie Robb SSU Evaluator: Kathleen Kesterke Mainstream media coverage: The Salt Lake Tribune, April 29, 1998, page A12 Dallas Morning News, [...]

22. Academia at Risk as Tenured Professors Vanish

22. Academia at Risk as Tenured Professors Vanish

Sources: ON CAMPUS, Title: “The Vanishing Professor,” Date: September 1998, Author: Barbara McKenna SSU Censored Researchers: Jason L. Sanders, Yuki Ishizaki, and Aimee Polacci SSU Faculty Evaluator: Perry Marker AFT HIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT REPORT, Title: “The Vanishing Professor,” http//www.aft.org The bedrock of higher education, tenured full-time faculty, have become an endangered species. According to the [...]

21. Global Oil Reserves Alarmingly Over-Estimated

21. Global Oil Reserves Alarmingly Over-Estimated

Source: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, Title; “The End of Cheap Oil,” Date: March 1998, Authors: Colin J. Campbell and Jean H. Laherrere SSU Censored Researcher: Rick Krigstein and Diana Nouveaux SSU Faculty Evaluator: Jim Burkland Colin J. Campbell and Jean H. Laherrere, two independent oil-industry consultants, predict that global production of conventional oil will start to decline [...]

20. Developers Build on Flood Plains at Taxpayers’ Expense

20. Developers Build on Flood Plains at Taxpayers’ Expense

Source: MOTHER JONES, Title: “Rain Check,” Date: March/April 1998, Vol. 23, issue 2, Author: Marc Herman SSU Censored Researcher: Brooke Herron SSU Faculty Evaluator: Bryan Baker According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), some 10 million people in the U.S. currently live on flood plains. Of these households at risk of flooding, only one-fourth [...]

19. Clinton Administration Lobbied for Retention of Toxic Chemicals in Children’s Toys

19. Clinton Administration Lobbied for Retention of Toxic Chemicals in Children’s Toys

Source: MULTINATIONAL MONITOR, Title: “Out of the Mouths of Babes,” Date: June 1998, Author: Charlie Gray SSU Censored Researchers: Scott Gross and Brooke Herron SSU Faculty Evaluator: Richard Gale Mainstream media coverage: Associated Press, Press Democrat, November 14, 1998, page Al The Clinton Administration and the Commerce Department have lobbied on behalf of U.S. toy [...]

18. Manhattan Project Covered Up Effects of Fluoride Toxicity

18. Manhattan Project Covered Up Effects of Fluoride Toxicity

Source: WASTE NOT, Title: “Fluoride, Teeth and the Atomic Bomb,” Date: September 1997, Authors: Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson SSU Censored Researcher: Corrie Robb SSU, Faculty Evaluator: Daniel Markwyn Recently declassified government documents have shed new light on the decades-old debate over the fluoridation of drinking water, and have added to a growing body of [...]

17. U. S. Media Promotes Biased Coverage of Bosnia

17. U. S. Media Promotes Biased Coverage of Bosnia

Sources: CAQ, Title: “Misinformation: TV Coverage of a Bosnian Camp,” Date: Fall 1998, No. 65, Author: Thomas Deichmann; CAQ, Title: “Seeing Yugoslavia Through A Dark Glass,” Date: Fall 1998, No. 65, Author: Diana Johnstone SSU Censored Researchers: Victoria Calkins and Sam Rogers SSU Faculty Evaluator: Phil Beard In August 1992, media coverage of the civil [...]

16. Mercenary Armies in Service to Global Corporations

16. Mercenary Armies in Service to Global Corporations

Sources: CAQ, Title: “Mercenary Armies & Mineral Wealth,” Date: Fall 1997, No. 62, Author: Pratap Chatterjee; MULTINATIONAL MONITOR, Title: “Guarding the Multinationals,” Date: March 1998, Author: Pratap Chatterjee SSU Censored Researchers: Jason Bothwell and Kelly Dahlstrom SSU Faculty Evaluators: Linda Lopez and John Steiner In many countries, multinational corporations have paid directly for private policing [...]

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