I have decided to compile a list of alternative sources. I hope this list will allow more people to look at real news and other news sources for information. Thanks to all those who have helped me compile this list! If you use a source not on this list please post it in comments.
* The star means my opinion*
The Young Turks-TYT YouTube Channel- "Young Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. Young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations. (American Heritage Dictionary)The Young Turks (Winner - Best Political Podcast & Best Political News Site of 2009) were the first original talk show on Sirius satellite radio and the first live, daily webcast on the internet. But that is not the revolution.We are a rare show that combines all of the news that people care about in one place. We are not afraid to talk about politics and entertainment and sports and pop culture. But that is not the revolution either.The real revolution is in daring to be honest with people. We don't patronize our viewers or lie to them. We have real conversations and deliver the news honestly."
RussiaToday!- "RT is a 24/7 English-language news channel. We are set to show you how any story can be another story altogether. Broadcasting over six continents and 100 countries, our coverage focuses on international headlines, giving an innovative angle set to challenge viewers worldwide.The channel is government-funded but shapes its editorial policy free from political and commercial influence. Our dedicated team of news professionals unites young talent and household names in the world of broadcast journalism.We're here to bring you another story."
english-aljazeera-AlJazeeraEnglish YouTube- "The world's first English language news channel to have its headquarters in the Middle East; covering the world, bridging cultures and setting the news agenda"
Wide Awake News-"If you're tired of all the "fluff" that mainstream media wraps the real news in, then you came to the right place.At WAN we update our site several times daily with stories pulled from alternative, mainstream, and global news sources. We get rid of the "fluff" and post stories, columns, and videos that get to the real news.We hope you make this site a regular stop for economic, political, geo-political, and the growing patriot movement news.Please support this site by visiting our advertisers or donating.Thank You Wide Awake News."
Crabbydogtrix YouTube- * Crabbydogtrix is usually on Wide Awake Radio on wide awake news. His program starts at 9pm est and ends at 10pm est. He has a variety of guests and allows call ins. On his youtube channel he comments on current events and tells it how it is. He is definitely worth checking out and he has been on other news programs.*
Tenebroust's The Stench Of Truth-Tenebroust YouTube- *One of my favorite guys to watch on youtube! His commentary on current events is awesome!*"User name: tenebroust. My screen name is pronounced like so: TEH-NEH-BRUSS-TEE Government conspiracies, forteana, Occult, Globalism, North American Union, Bilderbergers, elites, Constitution, power, war, disease, New World Order, illuminati, cover-ups, secret societies, rants, high strangeness, revolution, occult, spiriruality, politics, police state, fascism, predatory capitalism, current events and maybe a little humor as well.Socio-political commentary with a conspiratorial twist as well as the occasional Francis E. Dec rant thrown in for your amusement. I like to give my own take on the news and current events. I try to stay current with a couple of videos each week at least. Feel free to comment, good or bad.MY VIDEOS CONTAIN PROFANITY, IF THIS IS LIKELY TO OFFEND YOU THEN GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.I'd like to say THANKS to all of my subscribers!!"
NHK English- "News and information on Japan's politics, business, culture, entertainment and more."
ITN- "For over 50 years, ITN News has built a strong reputation as the UK's leading provider of independent broadcast news, delivering powerful, authoritative, world-class coverage. Renowned for its groundbreaking journalism and pioneering edge, ITN News produces high-quality news programming for the country's two biggest commercial broadcasters, ITV1 and Channel 4. ITN's first class journalism and its ability to get to the story first has seen the organisation win countless prestigious awards across the globe including International Emmys, Monte Carlo and RTS awards. Our footage appears on news programmes across the globe sold through our news syndication arm ITN Source News. "
NPR- "A thriving media organization at the forefront of digital innovation, NPR creates and distributes award-winning news, information, and music programming to a network of 900 independent stations. Through them, NPR programming reaches 26.8 million listeners every week."
Associated Press- AssociatedPress YouTube Channel-"The Associated Press is the essential global news network. Founded in 1846, AP today is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP."
The Atlantic- "News and analysis on current affairs, politics, and culture."
AlterNet-"AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources. AlterNet’s aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more. Since its inception in 1998, AlterNet.org has grown dramatically to keep pace with the public demand for independent news. We provide free online content to millions of readers, serving as a reliable filter, keeping our vast audience well-informed and engaged, helping them to navigate a culture of information overload and providing an alternative to the commercial media onslaught. Our aim is to stimulate, inform, and instigate."
openDemocracy-"openDemocracy publishes high quality news analysis, debates and blogs about the world and the way we govern ourselves.We are not about any one set of issues, but about principles and the arguments and debates about those principles. openDemocracy believes there is an urgent need for a global culture of views and argument that is:Serious, thoughtful and attractively written.Accessible to all.Open to ideas and submissions from anywhere, part of a global human conversation that is not distorted by parochial national interests.Original and creative, able to propose and debate solutions to the real problems that we all face."
The Majalla-"THE MAJALLA is a current affairs magazine, published weekly in both English and Arabic. Since it was first published in 1980 from London, THE MAJALLA has been considered one of the leading political affairs magazine of the Arab world. As a member of SRPC publications, we are committed to living up to this title by providing our readers with the most accurate and objective journalism.THE MAJALLA offers an array of articles addressing the most important issues facing the Middle East and the world today. From political analysis of developing stories, to debates between world class intellectuals, and interviews of leading political figures, our magazine is dedicated to providing the public with informative analyses of the current events shaping the global order. More importantly, THE MAJALLA is an ideas driven publication that goes beyond reporting and provides in-depth analysis and policy recommendations.We hope you will find that our work contributes to the greater debates taking place in the media, and that you find reading our magazine as enjoyable as we find writing it.Sincerely,Adel Al-Toraifi-Editor-in-Chief."
Truth Dig- "Truthdig is a news Web site that provides expert coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. The site is built around reports by authorities in their fields who conduct in-depth exploration of contemporary topics. To offer frequent change and surprise, the site also presents a diversity of original reporting and aggregated content culled by the site's editors and staff."
Foreign Policy-"FP is a 2006 and 2005 nominee and a 2009, 2007, and 2003 winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. The magazine’s readers include some of the most influential leaders in business, government, and other professional arenas throughout the United States and more than 160 other countries. In addition to our flagship English-language edition and award-winning website, ForeignPolicy.com, FP is also published in Arabic, Bulgarian, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, and Spanish."
ProPublica- "ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” We do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them."
Reuters-"Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests."
Japan Today- "Japan Today, launched in September 2000, is a Tokyo-based online newspaper, featuring all the latest news on Japan and the world, including national, political, entertainment, business, technology and sports news.Japan Today publishes original content, including interviews with celebrities and business executives, and translations of pop culture articles from popular Japanese magazines and newspapers.As one of the first online news media featuring comment/forum functions, Japan Today’s aim is to provide news and discussion on domestic and international issues. Our goal is to build our resources and content to allow readers to further understand important events and issues in Japan and the world.We are happy to have you with us and we hope that you will support us as we grow by inviting your colleagues and friends to join our community."
Slashdot- *Gives a wide range of headlines and news stories posted by various authors.*
disinformation-"The Disinformation Company is a dynamic, independent media company based in New York City. We are active in book publishing, film production and home video distribution, with well over 100 books and films in our catalog. We are known for working with filmmakers and authors to promote important political, social or cultural issues that are ignored by the mainstream media."
The Nation- "The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred.-- from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865"
Adbusters- "We are a global network of culture jammers and creatives working to change the way information flows, the way corporations wield power, and the way meaning is produced in our society."
ThinkProgress- "Think Progress is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The Center for American Progress Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization. Through this blog, CAPAF seeks to provide a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies."
The Raw Story-"The Raw Story is an investigative news nexus that highlights underreported news and rejects the traditional media narratives of power and influence. Founded in Boston in 2004, Raw Story has grown from a pure play political news site to a collaborative, investigative powerhouse that reaches more than 1.6 million readers per month. Recent focal points have included Wikileaks, wiretapping and judicial abuse. We're a big believer in transparency and the power of information to change lives. We also hold that telling the stories of those disenfranchised by popular media enriches our ability to understand and solve complex global challenges.Raw Story boasts editors and regular contributors in New York, Washington D.C., Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Illinois, Colorado and California".
MoveOn-"The MoveOn family of organizations brings real Americans back into the political process. With 5 million members across America — from carpenters to stay-at-home moms to business leaders – we work together to realize the progressive promise of our country. MoveOn is a service — a way for busy but concerned citizens to find their political voice in a system dominated by big money and big media."
Wikileaks-"WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box). One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth. We are a young organisation that has grown very quickly, relying on a network of dedicated volunteers around the globe. Since 2007, when the organisation was officially launched, WikiLeaks has worked to report on and publish important information. We also develop and adapt technologies to support these activities.WikiLeaks has sustained and triumphed against legal and political attacks designed to silence our publishing organisation, our journalists and our anonymous sources. The broader principles on which our work is based are the defence of freedom of speech and media publishing, the improvement of our common historical record and the support of the rights of all people to create new history. We derive these principles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In particular, Article 19 inspires the work of our journalists and other volunteers. It states that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. We agree, and we seek to uphold this and the other Articles of the Declaration."
Daily Kos- "Founded in May 26, 2002, Daily Kos is the premier online political community with 2 million unique visitors per month and 300,000 registered users. It is at once a news organization, community, and activist hub. Among luminaries posting diaries on the site are President Jimmy Carter, Senator Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and dozens of other senators, congressmen, and governors. Even more exciting than that, however, are the hundreds of thousands of regular Americans that have used Daily Kos to shape a political world once the exclusive domain of the rich, connected, and powerful."
Business Insider- "Welcome! Business Insider is a new business site with deep financial, media, tech, and other industry verticals. The flagship vertical, Silicon Alley Insider, launched on July 19, 2007, led by DoubleClick founders Dwight Merriman and Kevin Ryan and former top-ranked Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget.One year after launch, many more verticals joined Silicon Alley Insider, from Clusterstock to Money Game, The Wire, and more. The verticals have been relaunched under one brand to focus on building the leading online business news site for the digital age. There are no subscription fees or production delays. Business Insider is dedicated to aggregating, reporting, and analyzing the top news stories across the web and delivering them to you at rapid-fire pace."
Inforwars- * Personally I don't like Alex Jones, I don't like his attitude, I don't like how he fear mongers sometimes and I can't stand the sound of his voice when he rants. However I am a fair person and more then one person has asked I add this to my listing. I also believe there are many people who do use Alex as a source and with respect to those people I have added his site.*"Alex’s mainstay is his nationally syndicated news-talk show from his studio in Austin and broadcast on the Genesis Communication Network, based in Minnesota. The Alex Jones Show airs on over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave stations across the United States Monday through Friday from 11:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m. Central Standard Time. As well, Alex’s show is the largest draw for the talk genre on Shoutcast and the Internet. Alex does a syndicated and nationally broadcast Sunday show on Emmis Communications’ KLBJ 590 AM in Austin, Texas."
The Corbett Report- "The Corbett Report provides a weekly podcast as well as interviews, articles and videos about current events and suppressed history from an independent perspective. To begin using the site, click on one of the stories in the gallery below or use the tabs to navigate through our various media."
Inflection Points-Wepollock YouTube- * Warren gives interesting commentary to current events,and tries to provide some incite on how to best deal with economic times.*
The Truther Girls-TheTrutherGirls YouTube-"Sonia and her friends bring you the truth about H1N1, vaccination, chemtrails and more.If we make you laugh while we're at it, all the better. You gotta keep a sense of humor, even at a time like this."
ChangeDaChannel-Spy Witness News-"Spy Witness News where you're the reporter: news, private messaging, forums, event calender, video/text chat room, audio library, news library, blogs, profile page and more. In the works: broadcast net radio stations, users lounge and document library."
GovTrack- "GovTrack.us is a tool by Civic Impulse, LLC to help the public research and track the activities in the U.S. Congress, promoting and innovating government transparency and civic education through novel uses of technology."
Maplight- "MAPLight.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, provides citizens and journalists the transparency tools to shine a light on the influence of money on politics.Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws.This common practice is contrary to the public interest, yet legal. MAPLight.org makes money/vote connections transparent, to help citizens hold their legislators accountable. MAPLight.org is nonprofit and nonpartisan.We currently track money and influence in the U.S. Congress and in the California legislature and Wisconsin legislature, with more states to come."
The Guardian-"The Guardian and Observer newspapers and guardian.co.uk website are published by Guardian News & Media (GNM). GNM is the core business of Guardian Media Group (GMG), whose sole shareholder is the Scott Trust. GMG uses a diverse portfolio of investments to deliver the financial security that allows the Scott Trust to achieve its central objective: the editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity."
The Economic Times-" India's largest and world's second largest financial daily."
Indiatimes- "World's largest broadsheet English daily."
AlterNet- "AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources. AlterNet’s aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more. Since its inception in 1998, AlterNet.org has grown dramatically to keep pace with the public demand for independent news. We provide free online content to millions of readers, serving as a reliable filter, keeping our vast audience well-informed and engaged, helping them to navigate a culture of information overload and providing an alternative to the commercial media onslaught. Our aim is to stimulate, inform, and instigate."
Freedom Politics- "FreedomPolitics.com, launched Jan. 20, 2009, promotes the two most important principles for a free country: individual liberty and the individual responsibility that entails."
Old American Century- "Project for the Old American Century and not that corporate sponsored tea party bullshit,either" * haha I just love the tag they have, this is a controversial site, but it is also an alternative media, I really did add it just due to the tag line.*
Democracy Now!- "Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Free Speech TV ch. 348 and Link TV ch. 375); and on the internet. DN!’s podcast is one of the most popular on the web."
Media Matters- "Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."
Left Underground- * Not only does this site provide news links, there is a forum to discuss current events and political news.*
NewsBusters- "Welcome to NewsBusters, a project of the Media Research Center (MRC), the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias." *I almost didn't add the site due to it being a little right wing, however am I not merciful? I added it lol*
America's Independent Party-"Our purpose? The same as the stated purpose of the U.S. Constitution: “To secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”That’s why we’re pro-life and pro-liberty, and will always unswervingly support a strong and secure America."
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