Peter Phillips of Project Censored has responded to my critique, in which I point out that the director of an entity nominally devoted to fighting censorship actually supports censorship, as long as it’s done in Cuba. You’ll find Phillip’s largely boilerplate response, which fails to engage any of the points I made, at the bottom of the original post. He notes that Project Censored and his own reporting work are two different things. Yet his work appears prominently on the Project Censored website and clearly carries its imprimatur.
Phillips accuses me of “bias,” which is rich coming from someone who undertakes a reporting trip to Cuba to meet with journalists who are either sympathetic to the regime, or unable or unwilling to share any dissenting views, and then concludes that Cuban journalists willingly censor themselves so as not to aid in any “counter-revolutionary” plots. Right. For a supposed foe of censorship, by the way, to throw around the Stalinist term “counter-revolutionary” in the year 2008 is also noteworthy.
Phillips asserts that Project Censored has elicited only a “handfull [sic] of negative stories on just of few of our reports,” which says a good deal about the preach-to-the-choir culture of the left and very little about the merit of PC’s work.
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