Alternative media
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Template:Journalism Alternative media are defined most broadly as those media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication.
Proponents of alternative media often argue that the mainstream media is heavily biased, criticizing their pretended objectivity as a dissimulation of class biases. Causes of this bias include the political interests of the owners, government influence or the profit motive. The concentration of media ownership, as well as the concentration of the publishing industry are other causes of economical censorship. While sources of alternative media are also frequently highly (and sometimes proudly) biased, the bias tend to be different, hence 'alternative'. Alternative media outlets often engage in advocacy journalism and frequently promotes specific political views, often dissident views.
Authors such as Louis Althusser and Noam Chomsky have written in detail about the problems of the mainstream press, and their writings have inspired the creation of many alternative press efforts. Many current alternative press sources share values on copyright with the open source movement.
For a medium to be considered “alternative”, it must possess some kind of counter-hegemonic quality. The counter-hegemony should be represented through at least one of the following parameters:
- Content – what is being “said”
- Aesthetical form – the way it is being said
- Intention – the point of success
- Organizational structure – how the media are being run
- Process - the relationship between production and consumption of information
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Examples of alternative media
The following is a list of news sources considered to be part of an alternative media, in both print and electronic forms:
People associated with the alternative media
- Michael Rivero
- Jeff Rense
- Joseph Farah
- Alex Jones [14] [15]
- Michael Ruppert
- Matt Drudge
- Larisa Alexandrovna
- Jason Leopold
See also
- Free press
- Free daily newspapers
- Alternative press (U.S. political left)
- Alternative press (U.S. political right)
- Underground press
- Alternative weekly
- Advocacy journalism
- Community radio
- News agency (alternative)
- Alternative Internet publications (U.S. political left)
- Alternative Internet publications (U.S. political right)
- Environmental journalism
- Criticism of the publishing industry
- Gatekeeper (politics)
External links
- ACTivist Magazine
- Alternative Press Center
- Columbia Journalism Review, a bimonthly magazine that monitors U.S. media.
- Committee to Protect Journalists, nonprofit organization that defends the rights of journalists worldwide to report without fear of reprisal.
- COA News - Independent News Portal
- Dissident Voice
- IFEX, monitors attacks on journalists around the world.
- MANA - the Media Alliance for New Activism
- Konscious TV
- Media Activism
- National Writers Union, a labor union that represents freelance journalists and other writers.
- The News Standard
- Rabble
- Radical Middle
- RINF: Alternative Media & News
- SchNEWS
- Socialist Worker
- Straight Goods
- Industrial Worker - The Voice of the IWW
- UKWatch
- Underground Action Alliancenl:Alternatieve media