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MICKEY HUFF: THE 50-YEAR FIGHT AGAINST MEDIA ABUSE
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40:21Now PlayingIn this conversation, Mickey Huff and I use the 50th anniversary of Project Censored to trace a line from Watergate and the Church Committee to today’s “post-truth” media ecosystem. We revisit the project’s founding questions—why did the press ignore major crimes until it was too late, and what else are we not being told?—and connect them to contemporary “junk food news,” “news abuse,” and stenographic coverage of power from Gaza to Russiagate.
Along the way, we take aim at the self-congratulatory “the system worked” mythology, the tribalization of news consumption, and the contempt many elites show for ordinary people—even as the public often proves more clear-eyed than the media.
A great conversation with Mickey, as always.
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MICKEY HUFF is the director of Project Censored, the president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation, and Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he is also a professor. Huff joined Ithaca College in New York fall of 2024, where he now also serves as the and Professor of Journalism. Since 2009 he has coedited the annual volume of the Censored book series with associate director Andy Lee Roth.
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