Alternative media

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful. ~Amy Goodman

Alternative media is media that expresses the views of a significant but often ignored segment of the population (the poor, minorities, labor groups, activists) that tend to challenge & question views promoted by the corporate mainstream media (establishment).

Quotes

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• By 2015, the old gatekeepers had entered a kind of crisis of confidence, believing they couldn't control the online news cycle any better than King Canute could control the tides. Television networks all but let Donald Trump take over as executive producer that summer and fall. In October 2016, Julian Assange and James Comey seemed to drive the news cycle more than the major news organizations. Many figures in old media and new bought into the idea that in the new world, readers would find the information they wanted to read — and therefore, decisions by editors and producers, about whether to cover something and how much attention to give it, didn't mean much.
  But the last two weeks have proved the opposite: that the old gatekeepers, like The Journal, can still control the agenda. It turns out there is a big difference between WikiLeaks and establishment media coverage of WikiLeaks, a difference between a Trump tweet and an article about it, even between an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal suggesting Joe Biden had done bad things, and a news article that didn't reach that conclusion.
  • Ben Smith in “Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn't Buy It.” The New York Times (25 October 2020)

See also

• Julian Assange
• William Blum
• Noam Chomsky
• The Establishment
• Fake news
• Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
• Amy Goodman
• Glenn Greenwald
• Mainstream media
• Abby Martin
• Propaganda
• Michael Prysner
• Norman Solomon
• Status quo
• I.F. Stone