With the number of companies who control our media on the steady decline, it makes sense to check out alternative sources of news to get a balanced viewpoint on current issues. Here are a few we like:

TV/VIDEO

• Free Speech TV
• Fuse TV
• Jon Stewart
• Link TV
• The Colbert Report
• Living With Ed

RADIO

• Air America Radio
• Democracy Now!
• NPR
• Prometheus Radio Project
• Pacifica Radio

NEWS AND INFORMATION WEBSITES

• Altercation
• Realclearpolitics
• Al Jazeera
• AlterNet
• AntiWar.com U.S. Body Count
• BBC World Service
• Corp Watch
• Drudge Report
• Guerilla News Network
• Iraq Body Count
• Military Free Zone
• Ms. Magazine
• The Nation
• The National Security Archive
• The Onion
• Open Democracy
• Pitchfork Media
• Salon
• Wonkette.com
• Open Secrets
• Grist
• Treehugger
• Plenty Magazine
• Adbusters

BLOGS

• blogger.com
• Daily Kos
• Pesky Facts
• Take Back the Media
• Talking Points Memo
• This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow
• Technorati
• The War in Context
• Eco Talk

BOOKS AND PUBLISHING COMPANIES

• America (The Book) - A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
  Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, and David Javerbaum
• Our Media, Not Theirs – The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media
  Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
• Poor Workers' Unions - Rebuilding Labor from Below
  Vanessa Tait
• Ideas for Action - Relevant Theory for Radical Change
  Cynthia Kaufman
• An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
  Arundhati Roy
• Democracy Matters
  Cornell West
• McSweeney’s Publishing
  South End Press
• Listening to the Land
  Derrick Jensen

DOCUMENTARIES/MOVIES

• Body Of War
• The Third Wave
• Born Into Brothels
• Bush's Brain
• Control Room
• The Corporation
• The Day My God Died
• Get Up! Stand Up! The Story of Pop and Protest
• Hotel Rwanda
• Independent Media in a Time of War
• Outfoxed
• Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
• What the Bleep do We Know!?
• After Innocence
• Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost 2
• 30 Days
• Everything's Cool
• Manufactured Landscapes