How is The NewStandard different from other alternative media websites?
The realm of alternative media is chock full of excellent publications that provide commentary and analysis of current events and issues. Likewise, there are excellent “aggregator” websites which scour the internet gathering links to the best the existing media have to offer. But both of these formats rely primarily on mainstream media sources, with their attendant pro-establishment biases. Even where corporate publications cover relevant issues, they tend to employ relatively low standards in gathering and reporting the news. The public deserves better than “the best of the corporate media.” Without reporters on the ground or on the phone, gathering new information and asking new, difficult questions, readers, commentators and analysts are forced to draw conclusions from what they can scavenge from the corporate press. The NewStandard is not bound by these limitations. Our reporters can cover any event, regardless of whether it is also covered by the mainstream. They also seek out per
