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Ethnic/Alternative: Alternative (1656 words) |
 | To be clear, the alternative press as defined here has little to do with what many might describe as "alternative." The term is mostly a catchall phrase used by the mainstream media, but these publications are not what some call the "dissident" press in America (see sidebar). |
| Alternative weeklies were not spared from the large-scale consolidation that hit the media in general in the 1990s. |
| The dissident press, like ethnic media, is difficult to examine as a group because of its wide geographic spread, lack of large ownership and absence of a large centralized organizing group. |
| Alternative press Summary (1166 words) |
| Technically a part of the Alternative Press, and definitely one of the purest expressions of the counter-culture Zeitgeist, the underground comic book is actually a separate phenomenon. |
| It remains to be seen whether the most lasting legacy of the Alternative Press, the disabling of any governing system of courtesy or restraint in public discourse, will turn out to have hastened the end of a nightmare or the beginning of one. |
| As long as there have been media there have been alternative media, and the alternative press is a subset of them. |
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