Contributing writer David Bacon again wins national 'Censored' honors

David Bacon's article "How US Corporations Won the Debate Over Immigration" (published in our Nov/Dec 2004 issue) was chosen in Project Censored's top 25 most important under-reported news story in the US, and a synopsis will appear in the annual compilation release Censored 2006: News that Didn't Make the News.

A team of some 150 students and faculty at Sonoma State University in California judge about a thousand Project Censored nominations per year. This marks the second time that Bacon has won this recognition for an article printed in the WA Free Press, and it marks at least the sixth time that this newspaper has shared in such recognition from Project Censored.

Despite our smaller regional circulation, WA Free Press writers have time and again landed honors in Project Censored's annual list, which is generally dominated by articles in larger national progressive magazines. Article nominations to Project Censored should be of national or international import.

Bacon's most recent winning story documents how some forty of the largest trade and manufacturing associations in the United States banded together to form the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, which has promoted the vast expansion of guest worker programs under terms beneficial to the member corporations. Today in Congress, at least two major bills, with bipartisan involvement, embody proposals that originate with EWIC.

Such articles as Bacon's are one more reason why it's important to support this newspaper via your subscriptions, donations, as well as volunteer effort.

Articles in the Washington Free Press which have won Project Censored 'top 25' rankings

"How US Corporations Won the Debate Over Immigration" (see description above) Nov/Dec 2004

"Disobeying Orders" Sept/Oct 2002: massive environmental pollution caused by the US military

"Silicon Valley Sweatshops" Sept/Oct 2000: lowly working conditions for immigrant high-tech workers

"Genetic Bullets" Jan/Feb 2000: the likelihood of ethnically-targeted bioweapons

"Norplant and the Dark Side of the Law" Mar/Apr 1997: forced use of Norplant contraceptive

"Lettuce Libel" Apr/May 1996: the risks of criticizing food corporations

credit: Dan Merica