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Alternative Media Weblinks

An educated citizenry needs information to counter the dis-information of corporations, government and media sources. Try these alternatives to corporate-dominated, entertainment-type media sources. While some suggest that we have more information in the modern age than we did a century ago, the range of perspectives available in media sources is far narrower than is needed in a viable democracy. Here I offer some media sources that offer alternative viewpoints on current issues.

• http://www.commondreams.org News from around the world that you won't see in mainstream media
• http://www.alternet.org Perspectives on current issues, news stories from around the world
• http://www.fpif.org Foreign policy issues in historical and political perspective, background to current issues
• http://www.Historynewsnetwork.com Historians of various political perspectives weigh in on news of the day
• http://www.indymedia.org Wide-ranging but variable level of quality reporting on issues
• http://www.fair.org Media watchdog group, exposes the biases of corporate media
• http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm Lots of links to a wide range of topics; Carries commentaries by Noam Chomsky, leading critic blocked from mainstream media
• http://www.inthesetimes.org Independent journalism by the magazine that has won many awards, including a number of "Top 10 Censored News Stories"