Reply #14: That's putting it in all in a minimum number of words - I agree with you [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

Can you suggest web sites in addition to Media Matters and the DU forums for good source material about this and related subjects, like:

1. Sites and articles to aid brainstorming about how this (moving people from propaganda-filled news media to more truthful ones) is to be accomplished. And are there any books you would recommend?

2. Online and print resources documenting trends in deliberate abuse or sabotage of alternate media, especially when it is orchestrated by the administration. (For example, planting of bait stories or false stories, organized troll posting, disruption of activist efforts.) I'm also interested in documentation of how corporate media apparently try to smear alternate sources, for example by ridiculing cherry-picked (and possibly planted) posts on progressive internet sites like DU.

I'm at a preliminary stage of putting together material for articles intended to publicise the benefits of alternative news sources and also how they have been deliberately mis-described, abused and sabotaged by the administration and the corporate media. If there are good resource sites for this subject other than Media Matters and the DU forums, I'd appreciate hearing about them. Most of the standard blogs cover this issue once in a while, but not in enough documented detail or consistency to be all that useful at this stage.

Whether or not you have sites or other resources to suggest, thanks for the very interesting link in your post.. Are there parts of it that you plan to update?