Alternative Press Review
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| Alternative Press Review | |
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| Editorial collective | Jason McQuinn Thomas Wheeler Alan Antliff |
| Categories | Alternative media, anarchism |
| Frequency | Irregular |
| Publisher | C.A.L. Press |
| First issue | 1994 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://www.altpr.org/ |
| ISSN | 1072-7299 |
Alternative Press Review (byline: "Your guide beyond the mainstream") is an independent American magazine established in 1994 as a sister periodical to Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed.[1] As of 2002, its editorial collective consisted of Jason McQuinn (Anarchy), Chuck Munson (Infoshop.org) and Thomas Wheeler (Out of Bounds).[2] Munson was co-editor and reviewer from 1997-2003, when he was replaced by Allan Antliff.
The magazine's chief concerns, according to New Statesman are "sex, other media and the CIA".[3] Contributors to the review have included McQuinn, Noam Chomsky and Harold Pinter. It was criticized by Kirsten Anderberg in a 2005 issue for the fact that its contributors were overwhelmingly male, a phenomenon that according by Wheeler is a result of low numbers of submissions from female writes.[1] McQuinn responded to Anderberg by stating that the gender of writers and publishers within socially-conscious alternative and radical media was "simply irrelevant".[1]
The review was described in 1994 by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as "[c]loser to the edge of the magazine world, and not quite as articulate as the Utne Reader",[4] the magazine's main rival and market leader.[3] Ian Hargreaves, writing in the New Statesman in 1998, called the magazine "the real rivet-spitter on the block" of alternative media,[3] while a 1999 OC Weekly feature hailed it as "the essential nutrient missing from one’s daily McMedia diet of misinformation and disinformation." [5]
[edit] Citations
- ^ a b c McQuinn, Jason; Anderberg, Kirsten. "The alternative press is alternative because of what it does, Not because of the social classifications of its participants". Alternative Press Review.
- ^ McQuinn, Munson and Wheeler: Killing for the Flag. CounterPunch (2002-03-01). Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
- ^ a b c Hargreaves, Ian (1998-11-20). "The US left-wing mags are thriving, but don't go on their cruises". New Statesman.
- ^ "South Carolina seeks compromise on flag", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1994-11-29, pp. E/3. Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
- ^ Meiss, Angela (1999-06-03). "The Zine Scene". OC Weekly.
