This is an excellent, thoroughly researched and well thought out analysis of what is wrong with traditional media and how independent media can offer real alternatives to the capitalism-driven commerical news we are inundated by 24/7.

It is refreshing for someone to take the time to analyze the source of the problem with commercial news rather than simply complain about it. When we know what those problems are, then we are more likely to be able to create an alternative free of the compromising elements which colors what ends up in mainstream media.

Even though I am a participant in and endorser of independent media, I am, by virtue of being in our culture, also a consumer of cul