Now, to the post:
I stumbled upon Alternet.org a few days ago. Here is their own description:
AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of dozens of other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire citizen action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, and health care issues. Our editorial mix underscores a commitment to fairness, equity and global stewardship, and making connections across generational, ethnic and issue lines. AlterNet serves as a reliable filter, keeping hundreds of thousands of people well-informed and engaged, helping them cope with a culture of information overload and resist the constant commercial media onslaught. Our aim is to stimulate, motivate, and engage.
Things they intend to address (read: combat) include "the right-wing media machine."
One thing I like about this site is its self-awareness as a liberal-leaning (okay, super-liberal) news source, and also its "moderation" relative to, say, some of the magazines passed around in class the other day. For example, I stopped reading Adbusters several years ago because of the infuriatingly simplistic treatment of Israel/Israel-related problems, which as a product of a Jewish day school (admittedly I hated it the entire time), I tend to pay attention to. It's complicated situation, to be sure, but I've found that with a lot of these super-liberal publications—and I agree with a lot of what they're about—the articles are reductive and hateful, which I find to be counter-productive and a major turn-off.
So anyway, I leave you with these article on "The Google", Taser Parties for housewives, and—just for kicks—an Israel article. At least some of the videos on the site are worth watching, too, such as this one on decline-to-state voters in California.
--alana
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i visited their office in the fall. They are in San Francisco in a very cool building. It would be a great group with whom to do an internship. Don Hazen, the founder hosted two conferences on Media and Democracy which were very pivotal in helping to jumpstart the media reform movement in this country!
DeeDee
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