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Alternative media are media that differ from established or dominant types of media in terms of their content, production, or distribution.

Alternative media take many forms including print, audio, video, Internet and street art.

Some examples include the counter-culture zines of the 1960s, ethnic and indigenous media such as the First People's television network in Canada (later rebranded Aboriginal Peoples Television Network), and more recently online open publishing journalism sites such as Indymedia.

Mainstream is current thought that is widespread.

It includes all popular culture and media culture, typically disseminated by mass media.

It is to be distinguished from subcultures and countercultures, and at the opposite extreme are cult followings and fringe theories.

Public interest, according to the Random House Dictionary, is "1.

the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth.

2.

appeal or relevance to the general populace: a news story of public interest.".

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree.

The word applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles.

Journalistic media include: print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels.

A government is the system by which a state or community is controlled.

In the case of this broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislators, administrators, and arbitrators.

Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as the mechanism for determining the policy of the state.

Forms of government, or forms of state governance, refers to the set of political systems and institutions that make up the organisation of a specific government.

Governments control the economy, social freedoms, and political systems, and may or may not be voluntary.