StarSuckers

Starsuckers is a feature documentary about the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it. Made completely independently over 2 years in secret, the film journeys through the dark underbelly of the modern media. Using a combination of never before seen footage, undercover reporting, stunts and animation, the film reveals the toxic effect the media is having on us all and especially our children. Chris Atkins presents Starsuckers as a series of five lessons on fame in the modern world: how children are persuaded that fame is something they want, how television and the media reinforces the importance of celebrity and the efforts to attain it, how the mind and body reinforces our need to follow the activities of well-known people and strive to join their number, how the press became addicted to celebrity coverage, and how the art of promoting fame has led to celebrities and their handlers controlling the press instead of the press having say. Along the way, Atkins demonstrates how celebrity news with no basis in fact gets into print, why newspapers will run press releases almost verbatim, how parents will eagerly sign away the image rights to their kids, how certain mass scale charity events end up helping the performers far more than the causes they designed to support, and how publicists keep accurate but unflattering stories out of the news.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 - Links

Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:21 am (PDT)

Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

* _#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/1-over-one-million-iraqi-death
s-caused-by-us-occupation/)

* _# 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/2-security-and-prosperity-par
tnership-militarized-nafta/)

* _# 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/3-infragard-the-fbi-deputizes-business/)

* _# 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/4-ilea-is-the-us-restarting-
dirty-wars-in-latin-america/)

* _# 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/5-seizing-war-protesters-assets/)

* _# 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/6-the-homegrown-terrorism-prevention-act/)

* _# 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/7-guest-workers-inc-fraud-and-human-
trafficking/)

* _# 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/8-executive-orders-can-be-changed-secretly/

* _#9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/9-iraq-and-afghanistan-vets-testify/)

* _# 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/10-apa-complicit-in-cia-torture/)

* _# 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on
Terror_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-el-salvadors-water-privatization-and-the-global-war-on-terror/)

* _# 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/12-bush-profiteers-colle
ct-billions-from-no-child-left-behind/)

* _# 13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/13-tracking-billions-of-dollars-lost-in-i
raq/)

* _# 14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/14-mainstreaming-nuclear-waste/)

* _# 15 Worldwide Slavery_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/15-worldwide-slavery/)

* _# 16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/16-annual-survey-on-trade-union-rights/)

* _# 17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/17-uns-empty-declaration-of-indigenous-
rights/)

* _# 18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/18-cruelty-and-death-in-juvenile-de
tention-centers/)

* _# 19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock
Extinction_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/19-indigenous-herders-and-small-farmers-fight-livestock-extinction/)

* _# 20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/20-marijuana-arrests-set-new-record/)

* _# 21 NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/21-nato-considers-first-strike-nuclea
r-option/)

* _# 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/22-care-rejects-us-food-aid/)

* _# 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/23-fda-complicit-in-pushing-pharmaceu
tical-drugs/)

* _# 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/24-japan-questions-9-11-and-the-g
lobal-war-on-terror/)

* _# 25 Bushs Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer_
(http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/25-bushs-real-problem-with-eliot-spitzer/)


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