🚨 Two weeks ago, Bari Weiss killed CBS News Radio, the longest-running newscast in American history.
🚨 Now, the same billionaires who swallowed CBS are finalizing their takeover of CNN.
Pete Hegseth just said the quiet part out loud: “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.”
This is the oligarch takeover of American media — and we’re the resistance.
For decades, we trusted mainstream outlets to hold power accountable. But one by one, they’ve been captured. Billionaires don’t buy newsrooms to inform the public: they buy them to control the narrative. They spike stories that threaten their interests. They replace investigative journalists with talking heads. They turn the Fourth Estate into a public relations machine for the powerful.
The corporate media consolidation we’re witnessing isn’t just bad business. It’s a direct threat to democracy itself. When a handful of ultra-wealthy oligarchs control the flow of information, they control what Americans know, what we talk about, and ultimately, what we believe is possible.
But here’s the truth they don’t want you to know: We don’t need them anymore.
Today, I’m excited to announce our response: the launch of our new brand, AlterNet America. To counter mainstream media pandering and the downfall of TV news, we’re creating a new channel with you — not billionaire backers, not corporate advertisers, not political consultants. Just us.
AlterNet has been fighting for independent progressive journalism since 1987. We survived the collapse of alt-weeklies and the slow billionaire buyout of the American press. Now, with Bezos controlling the Washington Post, CNN on the chopping block, and MAGA billionaires dominating cable news, that mission is more urgent than ever.
AlterNet America isn’t starting from scratch. We’re finishing what we started nearly four decades ago.
Like AlterNet, AlterNet America will bring you breaking, up-to-the-minute reports that the mainstream media won’t touch. But we’ll also make sure you see an “alternate America”: the resistance winning in courts, in elections, and in the streets. We’ll serve you bite-sized videos filled with humor and humanity, alongside the news that powerful interests would rather you ignore.
AlterNet America is the biggest liftoff in AlterNet’s history — and it’s only possible because of you.
AlterNet America will bring you familiar faces and new voices. We’ll grab you the best clips from breaking news events and break down what’s really going on behind the scenes.
AlterNet America lives on Substack, where independent media thrives. Each day we’ll break down the story behind the story — and offer you entertaining takes on underreported news that powerful interests would rather you ignore.
To create this exciting new channel, we’ve partnered with Really American, a social media brand. Combined with Really American’s YouTube and social media presence, we reach hundreds of millions of Americans hungry for truth instead of propaganda.
This is how we fight back. Not with their money. Not with their platforms. With our voices, our values, and our refusal to let democracy die in darkness while oligarchs turn off the lights.
Join us.
