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 By Andy Lee Roth and Project Censored

1.  Cut “Junk Food” news from your media diet. If you rely on corporate news, replace one or more of your usual news sources with independent journalism. Try this for two weeks and decide whether you are better informed. See “Independent News Sources” at the list of independent news sources.   

2.  Follow the money. Corporate news is driven by advertising revenues and shaped by patterns of media ownership. For the news you consume, ask: What economic interests shape this content? The Columbia Journalism Review maintains a database of media ownership at the database on media ownership.

3.  Ask: “Who is treated as newsworthy?” With rare exceptions, establishment journalists rely exclusively on government and corporate officials as news sources. This means elites tend to be the sources and the subjects of most corporate news. For news stories you follow, track who gets quoted as newsworthy sources. Do these sources represent the full diversity of people with relevant information and perspectives on those stories?

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5.  Seek out & support “Solutions Journalism.”  Corporate media often ignore stories involving good news. However, the news and information that we need in order to fulfill our duties and our potential—as family members, community members, and citizens—includes not only stories of power and its abuses, but also exemplars of human activity, relationships and institutions at their very best. See, for example, the Solutions Journalism Network’s Story Tracker and the Foreword to Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times, by YES! Magazine’s Sarah Van Gelder.


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