Alternative Media Links
The following links to information and other resources are provided as a community service. Articles are provided under U.S. Fair Use laws.
AlterNet.org - "An online magazine and information resource where pressing issues are subject to examination and debate."
BBC (British Broadcasting Company) - generally more nuanced and comprehensive reporting and less beholden to corporate and political agendas than American mainstream media.
Center for Media and Democracy - "nonprofit, public interest organization funded by individuals and nonprofit foundations and dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. The Center serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices."
Common Dreams - "Breaking news and views for the progressive community."
Consortiumnews.com - "The Internet's first magazine of investigative journalism."
Democracy Now - "Democracy Now! is a national, listener-sponsored public radio and TV show, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the country." [Broadcast of Democracy Now in Missoula is sponsored by JRPC, and airs at 6am and 11am M-F on Missoula Cable Access TV.]
FactCheck.org - Holding politicians accountable for the claims they make. A project of the Annenberg Foundation for Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. You can sign up for e-mail delivery of new FactCheck articles and special reports, or simply read their reports at the site.
FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) - "National media watch group offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. Works to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints."
Global Info - "Daily news service of the developing world."
Human Media - "Public radio programs featuring voices of vision, conscience and compassion. Listen on-line."
Iowa Peace - Mike's weely column posted each Friday.
The Independent Institute: Center on Peace and Liberty
"The Center on Peace & Liberty is an integrated program of research,
publications, events, media, and Internet projects to boldly advance
understanding of government 'crises' and their impact on the institutions
of a free society. No issue is more central to the debate over public
policy and more crucial to making peace, open markets, individual
liberty, and the rule of law the cutting edge for future change."
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.
IPS - Inter Press Service The Global News Agency
ia News Tracker - "MediaChannel is a media issues supersite, featuring criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from hundreds of organizations worldwide. As the media watch the world, we watch the media."
Media Reform Information Center- includes a hyperlink to advocacy groups, articles and books.
OpenDemocracy.net - an online global magazine of politics and culture. "We publish clarifying debates which help people make up their own minds."
TomPaine.com - Compilation of news and smart commentary.
TomDispatch.com - researched, written and edited by Tom Engelhardt, a fellow at the Nation Institute, "for anyone in despair over post-September 11th US mainstream media coverage of our world and ourselves."
TruthOut.org - Articles, editorials, and letters on pressing issues in the news.
Yes! Magazine - "a journal of positive futures." Inspiring and empowering to creative peace action.
ZNet - "a community of people committed to social change."
