Every year Project Censored posts a list of the twenty-five most censored news stories.These stories are "censored" not in the sense that the media are legally prohibited from covering them but rather in the sense that most major media outlets have systematically ignored them and,in the process,determined what the public will think about.What theory explains this?

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Agenda-setting theory posits that the media have the power to shape the public's perception of what is important by selectively choosing which stories to cover and how to frame them. The fact that these news stories have been systematically ignored by major media outlets supports this theory.

Every Year Project Censored Posts a List of the Twenty-Five