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Antiwar.com vs. the Decline of American Journalism
Raimondo, Justin
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/02/23/antiwar-com-and-the-decline-of-american-journalism/Date Written: 2017-02-24 Publisher: Antiwar.com Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20448 What is the "alternative" media? If we look at the phrase itself, it seems to mean the media that presents itself as the alternative to what we call the "corporate media," i.e. the New York Times, the Washington Post, your local rag – in short, the Legacy Media that predominated in those bygone days before the Internet. And yet this whole arrangement seems outdated, to say the least. The Internet has long since been colonized by the corporate giants: BuzzFeed, for example, is regularly fed huge dollops of cash from its corporate owners. And the Legacy Media has adapted to the primacy of online media, however reluctantly and ineptly. So the alternative media isn’t defined by how they deliver the news, but rather by 1) what they judge to be news, and 2) how they report it. And that’s the problem. Subject Headings |