Project Censored has a list of the top 25 censored stories of 2007. This is obviously in the USA. And here censorship does not necessarily mean reports or reportage that the Government bans in a ham handed manner. Oh, those will get reported no.  It is rather, a compbination of multiple stake holders who ensure that certain reports and reportage in Public Interest that a) don’t get printed, b) if they do get printed they are tucked away between tender advertising & stock market reports., c), Are allowed to die with the ‘system’ closing ranks….

I would be very interested to read about the top 25 stories that were killed or ignored in[tag]India[/tag]. My own list :

a) Floods in Bihar & Orissa – 1200 dead , and God only knows how many made homeless. The media – atleast the English Language Media ignored it. They possibly thought that it put the middle classes off their breakfast.

b) Where is the investigation into the 2000 crores of monies that Pravin Mahajan claimed that Pramod Mahajan had made & not shared. Why is everyone quiet about that.

c) Where is the Main Stream journalism that looks at the environmental consequences of the Sethu Samudram Project.

d) What is happening on the [tag]Parliament Bombing Case[/tag] and why has everyone gone quiet on it.

e) What is the link between the setting up of retail food giants and the increase in the price of onions ?

f) [tag]Political Party Funding in India [/tag]- wouldn’t you be interested in reading this in the run up to the elections?

g) In Mumbai, with outsourcing of essential maintenance services to private vendors, employees are being moved into a contract labour status with no rights and lower pay…… News on the hidden costs of privatisation. and, this is news because your tax money and mine has gone towards building of these services. And now they are being handed over on a platter to someone…..

h) Discrimination against Dalits – we all know it happens, so why the coyness in addressing the issue. or is the MSM afraid of pissing off an audience that doesn’t want to acknowledge caste or worse, beleives that discrimination is their right.

They have obviously compensated by paying attention to other areas:

• The forest fire in Californa – after all California is closer to Mumbai than Patna
• Abhi Ash – Our own version of inane royalty
• Branjalena – Our focus on visiting royalty
• Shilpa Shetty – discrimination becomes news when a nubile nymphet from India gets called a ‘Paki ‘ by some uneducated bimbette.
• Bobby Jindal & Sunita Williams – why is this obsession with foreigners ?
• The P Note — it is obviously very important —- what does it do, and why does it get so much weightage.

Do add to the list…