This show was broadcast September 29, 2011.
Coming up every Thursday at 7:00 pm Pacific * 10:00 pm Eastern * 02:00 GMT
Will be archived here after the broadcast.
Broadcast From Berkeley, California
PROJECT CENSORED RADIO:
Censorship at Home and Abroad
Today’s program is on censored Bahraini journalist Nada Alwadi, seeking temporary political asylum in the US, on the Popular Revolt for Democracy in Bahrain; we look at Banned Books Week which begins this Monday, we talk to one of the organizers Chris Finan president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; investigative journalist Peter Byrne joins us to discuss how the SF Chronicle censored his recent reporting on conflicted UC Regent and husband of US Senator Dianne Feinstein, Richard Blum; and we hear from Steve Zeltzer of Work Week Radio. Show hosts are Mickey Huff, Peter Philips and Abby Martin.
Broadcast from Berkeley–Hard hitting News and Public Affairs with hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips of Project Censored on KPFA’s morning show. The mission of Project Censored is to teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society – and to tell the News That Didn’t Make the News and Why. Originally broadcast on KPFA on September 23, 2011.