How is The NewStandard different from the corporate media?
In today’s corporate- and profit-dominated world, most news media is controlled by commercial institutions and produced by hierarchical, for-profit methods. The result is inaccurate, spectacularized or irrelevant news stories, frustrated journalists, and a confused, disempowered public. Often, the corporate and governmental bias in mainstream news is covered up with claims of journalistic “objectivity,” obscuring public understanding of how state and private interests affect the news. The NewStandard is organized in a fundamentally different way so as to foster the creation of content that is both as accurate and transparent as possible and conveys in-depth understanding of public interest issues. Rather than hide behind the label of “objectivity” while serving the interests of investors and advertisers, our mission is to portray the world from the perspective of people who view it and are impacted by it. Another main difference between The NewStandard and commercial media is the type
