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Homework #4 Alternate press/Zines

There are many forms of press used in today’s times and some are removing others in the process. Some people enjoy reading the news, now since you can access the news straight from your computer at home a person no longer needs to leave their house to get information. With this can slowly decrees the amount of newspapers being distributed, but the online subscription would increase. The same goes for books as well because instead of carrying some heavy book they could just download a pdf straight to their Ipad or tablet and read on a light weight device.

For Zines I believe that they do have a place in this world of today. They are usually a small designed book with information about what ever the author feels is necessary and wants readers to read about. With zines being in mainstream circles people can get more of an audience to read them and can continue to pass the word around.

Regular Media versus Free Alternative Press

In the passage “Alternative Press”, the author tries to warn public about what they take for the absolute truth; I mean the news broadcast through TVs and publish by newspapers. In fact, the author says that the news released by media is merely linked to their own interest and the one of the government. Fortunately, nowadays, we have some free alternative press that can inform people for the common interest of everyone. Next, I can compare free alternative press to what the author calls newspaper without government; free alternative press reveals the need of population and can criticize the government at every single level. As an alternative, the zine is one of the options to write a free press. Since zine is an amateur press, the author stressed out about the privacy of the writers while publishing their zines.

To sum up, I believes that free alternative press is very important insofar as it denounces some problems that we will never find in the regular media