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AlterNet is an Alternative interNet left-of-center news outlet. Their coverage tends to be on things left out of mainstream "corporate media" (such as positive coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement) and usually takes issue with and exposes the underhanded establishment politicians and businesses. Trouble is, they have a bad habit of indulging in woo. In many ways, they're like a more aggressive HuffPo: as long as they're not talking about science outside of evolution, cosmology or climate change, they're okay.
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[edit] Good Stuff
[edit] Occupy Wall Street
AlterNet devoted an inordinate amount of digital ink to the topic of Occupy Wall Street.[1] They, along with a handful of other independent media outlets gave decent and fair coverage of the events happening at Zucotti Park and other Occupy movements that were happening throughout the world.
[edit] Feminism and Misogyny
AlterNet is one of a very few internet media sources that does not cater to MRA's shouting MISANDRY![2] They frequently host articles addressing sexual violence and assault, dealing with women in video games and generally about how treating women terribly is a bad thing and what it does to women and men in society.
[edit] Bad Stuff
[edit] Pseudoscience
AlterNet has a bad habit of promoting woo. The worst of these is by far their stance on GMOs: they stridently avoid asking actual scientists' opinions on the topic or reading a single peer-reviewed paper by them on the subject (aside from those by this dipshit[3]), have frequently misrepresented data regarding transgenic organisms[4] and will happily castigate anyone that doesn't tow quack line.[5] As if that's not bad enough, AlterNet has even dabbled in a little bit of radiophobia.[6]
On the upside, AN has taken it upon itself to trashing Whole Foods largely for their Libertarian "fuck you, got mine" stance.[7][8] Sadly, it seems that attacking their cultish, pseudo-science positions would be rather hypocritical for the rag.
[edit] Conspiracy theories
Thankfully AlterNet is not willing to dabble into the crazier aspects of conspiracy theories and instead aims to dismiss a lot of them. However, they have a thing for Black Helicopters being used by right-wingers to crush their allies or Occupy Wall Street specifically.[9]
[edit] References
- ↑ As you can see here, they have an entire page dedicated to it.
- ↑ Seriously, check it out!
- ↑ Here is AlterNet running a story about the infamous Séralini paper as legitimate and accepted science.
- ↑ Here is a story misrepresenting conclusions from a paper regarding glyphosate and kidney disease in places where the herbicide is used with hard water contamination in order to show how "MONSATAN is poisoning us with GMOs"!.
- ↑ Here they are calling Mark Lynas a shill for Monsanto for discovering the actual science behind transgenic crops and thus no longer supporting anti-GMO woo.
- ↑ Because cellphones emit RADIATION and RADIATION causes CANCER!
- ↑ Mostly due to how they treat their workers as a whole...
- ↑ ... and at the individual level.
- ↑ This one is just... well, here.