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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. Causes of this bias include the political interests of the owners, government influence or the profit motive. 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.

Examples of alternative media include both print and electronic forms: Z Magazine, Traditions Magazine, Indymedia, Counterpunch, Altermedia, Commondreams, The Raw Story,Whatreallyhappened, Adbusters,BradBlog, and informationclearinghouse.info

See also

• Free press
• Alternative press (U.S. political left)
• Alternative press (U.S. political right)
• Underground press
• Alternative weekly
• Advocacy journalism
• News agency (alternative)
• Alternative Internet publications (U.S. political left)
• Alternative Internet publications (U.S. political right)
• Environmental journalism

External links

• ACTivist Magazine
• Altermedia
• Commondreams
• CounterPunch
• informationclearinghouse
• Currents of Awareness
• Dissident Voice
• Indymedia
• MANA - the Media Alliance for New Activism
• Konscious TV
• Media Activism
• The News Standard
• Rabble
• Radical Middle
• RINF: Alternative Media & News
• SchNEWS
• UKWatch
• Underground Action Alliance
• Zmag

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