Junk Food News and News Abuse

""Regular readers of Project Censored are familiar with our annual list of Junk Food News ? in which Project volunteers and interns select a list of the dumbest, least important, most overplayed stories of the year. Project Censored-founder Carl Jensen introduced the chapter as a response to charges from some in the mainstream media that the Top 25 Censored list was nothing more than a skewed interpretation of the journalism and editing process. After all, the news can't print (or air) everything. Stories the Project referred to as 'Censored,' they said, were simply those that had been set aside to make room for more deserving, consequential news." An interesting example of the priorities of the mainstream "news." Be sure to check the top 25 censored news stories to see what was bumped to air critical updates on the dirty laundry of celebrities."