AlterNet is an unabashedly left‑wing digital media platform—with roots reaching back to 1987—founded by the Independent Media Institute and designed to aggregate and amplify progressive content from across the ideological ecosystem. In April 2018, it was acquired by the owners of Raw Story—John K. Byrne and Michael Rogers—who continue to operate it under AlterNet Media…
Media Hall of Shame Series – Mother Jones
In the vast ecosystem of left-leaning media, Mother Jones stands out—not for balance or investigative rigor, but for its full-throated, unapologetic progressive activism. Founded in 1976 and named after the fiery union agitator Mary “Mother” Jones, the magazine was always intended to be a partisan outlet. And that’s exactly what it is: an ideological fortress…