Alternative press

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For the music magazine, see Alternative Press (music magazine).

The alternative press consists of printed publications that provide a different or dissident viewpoint than that provided by major mainstream and corporate newspapers, magazines, and other print media. As long as there have been mass media there have been alternative media, and the alternative press is a subset of them.

The alternative press often engages in advocacy journalism and frequently promotes specific political views. See for example the lists at alternative press (U.S. political left) and alternative press (U.S. political right).

In the United States, there are a number of alternative newspapers such as the Village Voice in New York, the Metro Times in Detroit, The Boston Phoenix , The Chicago Reader, Washington City Paper and the Knoxville Voice.

Factsheet Five publisher Mike Gunderloy described the alternative press "as sort of the 'grown-up' underground press. The alternative press is often leftist, often concerned with building a better world, and usually deadly serious. Whole Earth, the Boston Phoenix, and Mother Jones are the sorts of things that fall in this classification."[1] In contrast, Gunderloy described the underground press as "the real thing, before it gets slick, co-opted, and profitable. The underground press comes out in small quantities, is often illegible, treads on the thin ice of unmentionable subjects, and never carries ads for designer jeans."[1]

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  1. ^ a b Gunderloy, Mike (August 1991), “Glossary”, Factsheet Five (Rensselaer, NY: Pretzel Press) (no. 44): p. 86, ISSN 08906823, <http://www.gyrofrog.com/glossary-ff44.php>. Retrieved on 5 November 2007 
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