Underreported? 2009 Head to Head

As is tradition here, I give you the Project Censored "Top 25 Censored Stories" and the WorldNetDaily "Most Ignored Stories" lists. Unfortunately, they're on somewhat different cycles, with WND working from calendar years and PC working on more of an academic year. As usual, I will bold the ones I've heard of. I make no claims about the truth of any of these stories, only that they are considered underreported; I have edited them slightly for length and clarity.

Project Censored, 2008-2009 1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street 2. US Schools are More Segregated than in the 1950s 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates 4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina 5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products 6. Lobbyists Buy Congress 7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past 8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions 9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza 10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate 11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine 12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief 13. Katrina’s Hidden Race War 14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts 15. World Bank’s Carbon Trade Fiasco 16. US Repression of Haiti Continues 17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan 18. Ecuador’s Constitutional Rights of Nature 19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor 20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates 21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare 22. Obama’s Trilateral Commission Team 23. World Water Forum a Corporate-Driven Fraud 24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion 25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon

WorldNetDaily, 2008 1. Charges that Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the U.S. 2. hundreds of top scientists tell Senate they believe claims of man-caused global warming are fraudulent 3. The true causes of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, which point directly to the Democratic Party 4. Obama's ties to terrorists and extremists 5. The campaigns of third-party presidential candidates, especially Ron Paul's 6. The stunning success of the Iraq war 7. The sources of Obama's campaign contributions 8. Obama's far-left voting record 9. Bush's refusal to pardon imprisoned border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean 10. Suppression of Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders' film, "Fitna," which posits worldwide threat from Islam

This is the first year, I think, that I've actually heard all ten of the WND stories, probably because it was election year stuff which actually got a lot of play. This is typical for WND, though: their list is made up of stories which should have, they think, changed things; the fact that they were widely reported, usually debunked, and people moved on is evidence, as far as they're concerned, that the story was under-reported. It's not the same thing.

I'd heard of six of the top ten PC stories, 11 out of 25: I think that's a bit low for me (hmm, checking the past years, it's actually on the high side), but some of these, if true (and not overstated), clearly are under-reported. The ones I've heard of, mostly come from my leftist sources, but almost never make it into the wider, so-called "mainstream" media in any detail or depth.