&lt;img src=&quot;http://sfreporter.com/santafe/imgs/media.images/3016/09.22.10 Censored-Stories.t2.jpg&quot; /&gt;Despite the changing media landscape, Project Censored&amp;rsquo;s mission remains the same The world was a different place in 1976 when Carl Jensen, a professor of communications at Sonoma State University, founded Project Censored to highlight important national news stories that were underreported or outright ignored by the mainstream press.
Back then, there were few good alternatives to television networks or major newspapers and magazines, and stories omitted from those channels usually escaped public notice. There was no such thing as Google News, no one had ever heard of a blog, and the word &amp;ldquo;twitter&amp;rdquo; was associated with birds or gossip.