Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Journalism Worth Supporting:
Lately I've been paying less attention to the mainstream media and its usual thin slices of corporate-based "reality" in favor of the alternative press. Aside from some excellent bloggers like Digby, (Hullabaloo,) and The Infamous Brad (Hicks,) or the ever erudite Billmon - all of whom deserve your readership and your support; I recommend supporting the following:
AlterNet is a wonderful collection of the "best of the alternative press," and both deserves and needs your financial support. It should go without saying I recommend reading it as well.
Project Censored is another good organization that reports on the most important stories the corporate mass media failed to print; like the number of people who died in American custody, people we tortured to death under the auspices of the Bush Administration.
Without these organizations there's a good chance the American people would not hear about vital stories, like the organ damage caused by eating genetically-modified foods. Project Censored vetted all their stories through scientific sources, (meaning respected professors at top-flight universities and/or government scientists.)
Honorable mention goes to The Christian Science Monitor.
Lately I've been paying less attention to the mainstream media and its usual thin slices of corporate-based "reality" in favor of the alternative press. Aside from some excellent bloggers like Digby, (Hullabaloo,) and The Infamous Brad (Hicks,) or the ever erudite Billmon - all of whom deserve your readership and your support; I recommend supporting the following:
AlterNet is a wonderful collection of the "best of the alternative press," and both deserves and needs your financial support. It should go without saying I recommend reading it as well.
Project Censored is another good organization that reports on the most important stories the corporate mass media failed to print; like the number of people who died in American custody, people we tortured to death under the auspices of the Bush Administration.
Without these organizations there's a good chance the American people would not hear about vital stories, like the organ damage caused by eating genetically-modified foods. Project Censored vetted all their stories through scientific sources, (meaning respected professors at top-flight universities and/or government scientists.)
Honorable mention goes to The Christian Science Monitor.
# posted by Phillip T. Alden @ 6:48 PM 
