Editing Project Censored (section)

== Reception ==
Project Censored stories have been cited in both national and international media.<ref>{{cite news | title = Greatest sin in today's media is laziness rather than bias | work = Contra Costa Times | first = Molly | last = Ivins |author-link=Molly Ivins| date = September 22, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | last = Stein | first = M L | title = Project Censored | magazine =  Editor & Publisher | volume = 126 | issue = 5 | date = Jan 30, 1993| pages = 16}}</ref> [[Ralph Nader]] described Project Censored as "a deep, wide and utterly engrossing exercise to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in the mass media."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Censored 2015: inspiring We the people: the top censored stories and media analysis of 2013-2014|last1=Roth|first1=Andrew Lee |last2=Huff |first2=Mickey |isbn=978-1609805654|edition=1st |location=New York|oclc=868199592|date=2014-10-07}}</ref> In December 2013, Nader selected ''Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times'' as one of his "10 Books to Provoke Conversation" in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/2014-book-recommendations_b_4524616.html|title=10 Books to Provoke Conversation in the New Year|last=Nader|first=Ralph|date=2013-12-31|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-05}}</ref>

On the other hand, in 2000, Don Hazen, the first executive director of the progressive news analysis and commentary website ''[[AlterNet]]'', criticized Project Censored as "stuck in the past" with a "dubious selection process" that "reinforces self-marginalizing, defeatist behavior".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.alternet.org/story/202/|title=Beyond Project Censored: It's Time for a New Award|last=Hazen|first=Don|date=2000-03-31|work=AlterNet|access-date=2018-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040708005650/http://www.alternet.org/story/202/|archive-date=July 8, 2004}}</ref> It has also been criticized for reporting on stories that are arguably not "under-reported" or "censored" at all, as they have appeared in ''[[The New York Times]]'' and other such high-profile publications.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2000/04/projectcensored.html|title=The Unbearable Lameness of Project Censored|work=Mother Jones|access-date=2018-02-05|language=en-US}}</ref> Furthermore, the organization's use of the term "censorship" to describe under-reported items, rather than governmentally censored material, has been called into question.<ref>{{cite news | title = The great alternative press | last = Lehrer | first = Eli | work = [[The American Enterprise]]|  volume = 9 | issue = 3 | date = 1998 | pages = 15–16}}</ref> William Powers, writing in ''[[The New Republic]]'', called this broad use of the term "pernicious and deceptive."<ref>{{cite magazine | title = Censor this | first = William | last = Powers | magazine = The New Republic | volume = 217 | issue = 1 | date = July 7, 1997 | pages = 15–16}}</ref>