REVIEW: How ‘alternative’ media can again be mainstream

Review of Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community Media, by Susan Forde. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011, 214pp. ISBN 978 0230243576 (pbk) Ironically, alternative and independent media were not always marginalised. Less than two centuries ago, they were the ‘mainstream’....

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Autor principal:	David Robie
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Publicado:	Asia Pacific Network 2012
Materias:	Alternative media Community radio Fourth Estate Independent media Independent news Independent publishing Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6d5d24cf3708470d8d7027e9503c01652021-12-02T03:41:02ZREVIEW: How ‘alternative’ media can again be mainstream10.24135/pjr.v18i2.2771023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/6d5d24cf3708470d8d7027e9503c01652012-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/277https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035Review of Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community Media, by Susan Forde. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011, 214pp. ISBN 978 0230243576 (pbk) Ironically, alternative and independent media were not always marginalised. Less than two centuries ago, they were the ‘mainstream’. They being the radical and working class media of Europe and the new world colonies. This is a central point made in Susan Forde’s Challenging The News in her search to find a refocused critique of the Fourth Estate notions that make sense of the contemporary alternative media’s role. An essential element, she concludes, is the ‘key importance that someone is watching the watchers; that media power itself must be monitored, assessed, critiqued, and challenged. Alternative journalists provide that critique’ (p. 169).David RobieAsia Pacific NetworkarticleAlternative mediaCommunity radioFourth EstateIndependent mediaIndependent newsIndependent publishingCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 18, Iss 2 (2012)
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description	Review of Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community Media, by Susan Forde. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011, 214pp. ISBN 978 0230243576 (pbk) Ironically, alternative and independent media were not always marginalised. Less than two centuries ago, they were the ‘mainstream’. They being the radical and working class media of Europe and the new world colonies. This is a central point made in Susan Forde’s Challenging The News in her search to find a refocused critique of the Fourth Estate notions that make sense of the contemporary alternative media’s role. An essential element, she concludes, is the ‘key importance that someone is watching the watchers; that media power itself must be monitored, assessed, critiqued, and challenged. Alternative journalists provide that critique’ (p. 169).
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