The other side...

If you want to hear some of the arguments against independent media outlets read this article on Slate. In the article, Jack Shafer questions alternative media outlets' business models, asks whether independent outlets are inclined to cover the interests of their "donors", and says that the
students working for free at the Area News Project Berkeley is "slave labor." Whether you agree or not it's interesting to read arguments out there which question just how moral independent media outlets really are.