ALTERNATIVE MEDIAS – Advertisers Are Trying To Screw It Up!!!

One of the latest effects of media demassification has been the creation of an alternative media. As Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones says, "alternative media amplifies as the mainstream media declines." They further state, "This is directly due to the burgeoning power of the alternative media and the declining influence of the established media." Their article blames biased journalism and the emergence of obtrusive, over zealous advertisers for that media’s failure. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/070805alternativemedia.htm

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There is nothing wrong with reporting the news written by alternative journalist via the internet or through flyers because you really can't make an intelligent choice if you've only heard one opinion. There are various websites which offer a variety of alternative news, local events, and sports. Some of these sites are very interesting and have stories that the mainstream mediums never report. A few of these sites are listed below.

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However, advertisers have flooded the internet, telecommunications, and our postal service with unwanted advertisements. Advertisers who produce their own alternative medias and carry their messages to potential customers by mail and telemarketers really irk me. Their junk mail and telemarketing messages intrude on my privacy. Here are a few tips on dealing with these unwanted intrusions:

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1.) When a telemarketer calls you, these three little words will resolve that problem and help eliminate those unwanted calls... "Hold On, Please..." Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) will make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that company sales will grind to a halt. Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. If everyone would do this, those three little words could possibly eliminate telephone soliciting altogether.

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2.) Have you ever gotten annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home. After answering, if there is no one there, immediately start hitting the # button on the phone six or seven times as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system.

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3.) When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away. When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope. Most of these letters come with postage-paid return envelopes. It costs these companies more than the regular 39 cents postage "if and when" they receive them back. It costs these companies nothing if you throw them away! Their business postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and the postage is according to the weight. Since the postage is according to the weight and chargable to these intruding companies, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail by putting it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes. Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to Telephone, Electric or Gas Company. Send a pizza coupon to American Express or Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back! (If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.) You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their own junkmail back. This will let these intrusive companies know what it's like to get lots of junk mail and best of all ,they're paying for it...Twice! This will also help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into postal business profits and contributes to increase postage costs.

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The alternative media is by no means perfect but these tips and good alternative journalism should make it near perfect… and prevent advertisers from screwing this new media up!!!

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Other “Alternative Media” Links:

http://www.rinf.com/

http://activism.net/
http://www.zmag.org/altmediawatch.htm

http://www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html

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Other “I Hate Junk Mail” Links:

http://www.obviously.com/junkmail/
http://www.junkmailstopper.com/
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs4-junk.htm
http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/extra/using-junk-control.html
http://www.newdream.org/junkmail/

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