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Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform.

In this episode of Writer’s Voice, Francesca Rheannon speaks with Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored about the State of the Free Press 2025, marking 50 years of tracking underreported stories.

“Censorship by proxy… corporate entities… are in effect doing the dirty work of the government.” 

Then, Michael Ellsberg discusses Truth and Consequence, a powerful collection of writings by his father, whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, exploring moral responsibility, war, and resistance.

“What do you do as an official when you realize that the policy that you are enacting is crazy or immoral or evil?”

Together, these conversations examine the forces shaping what we know—and what we don’t—and the landscape of moral choice in confronting injustice.

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Tags: free press 2025, media censorship, Project Censored, independent journalism, ICE surveillance, Meta censorship, climate crisis news coverage, Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers, media consolidation, Writer’s Voice podcast, literature podcast, interviews with writers, book author interviews, interviews with authors,

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