(NaturalNews) NaturalNews.com was recently named the fourth largest alternative news website in the world by the
DBKP Report (
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/dbkpreport/2011/02/alternate-news-inf...). NaturalNews delivers daily news, commentary and satire on natural health, alternative medicine and health freedom topics, calling into question the government's stance on vaccines, health care and pharmaceuticals while offering practical and useful information on
natural cures, herbal remedies and
nutritional therapies that really work to prevent and even cure degenerative
disease.
The No. 1 alternative news
website, according to Alexa rankings, is Alex Jones' Info Wars (
www.InfoWars.com), which also reprints many
NaturalNews stories (with permission), especially when those stories intersect with issues of liberty and
freedom (such as stories about the TSA, the
government / pharma connection, etc.). InfoWars.com has experienced a huge surge in popularity recently due to the appearance of Charlie Sheen on Alex Jones' radio show, where Charlie let loose with an over-the-top rage on numerous topics.
Second and third in the rankings were "Above Top Secret" and "Dr. Bruce Maccabee Research Website."
Continuing down the rankings are sites such as AlterNet, The Raw Story, and Rense.com.
Considerably lower in the rankings are sites such as OpEdNews, which recently announced it would no longer publish stories questioning the official government line on
vaccines. This most likely means that site's rankings will fall even further as alternative news readers realize it has adopted the government's pro-vaccine stance and is now parroting Big Pharma's position on vaccines (including claiming Dr Wakefield has been discredited for fabricating
research data, an allegation which is factually and provably false).
Why the alternative media is important in a free society
Here at NaturalNews, we are honored to be part of the extremely important
alternative media -- perhaps the last place on the planet where intelligent
journalism is still taking place on issues such as liberty, the coming economic collapse, vaccines,
health freedom and other similar topics. While there is a lot of diversity (and even disagreement) among the sites in the "alternative media," here at NaturalNews we feel that the presence of the alternative media is absolutely vital to freedom -- especially since the mainstream media has, for the most part, abandoned real journalism in favor of corporate-scripted "agendalism." (There are exceptions, of course, but most conventional media reports are scripted by profit-driven corporations and packaged for consumption with a particular profit motive in mind...)
NaturalNews.com currently carries an Alexa rating of 3557, which varies day to day depending on the news cycle. Much NaturalNews content is actually found on sister websites such as
www.NaturalNews.TV (which serves up to 1.2 million
video views each month),
www.CounterThink.com (health freedom cartoons) and
www.NaturalPedia.com a natural health research website.
NaturalNews content is headed up by Mike Adams, the editor of the site, who does everything from writing articles to producing videos (
www.FoodInvestigations.com), running a nutrition-oriented non-profit center (
www.ConsumerWellness.org) and composing and performing popular hi-hop
music on alternative topics (
www.NaturalNews.com/Music). Adams is a Libertarian-minded
health freedom advocate who used to be diseased but cured himself of borderline obesity and diabetes using nutritional therapies
without a doctor. You can view his video channel on NaturalNews.TV at:
http://naturalnews.tv/HealthRangerDBKP is a highly-trafficked website featuring news of "the weird" including politics, entertainment, crime, celebrities and more. You can read DBKP here:
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/See the complete ranking of "alternative news"
websites at:
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/dbkpreport/2011/02/alternate-news-inf...
About the author: Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2010, Adams launched NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video site featuring videos on holistic health and green living. He also launched an online retailer of environmentally-friendly products (BetterLifeGoods.com) and uses a portion of its profits to help fund non-profit endeavors. He's also a noted pioneer in the email marketing software industry, having been the first to launch an HTML email newsletter technology that has grown to become a standard in the industry. Adams is currently the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and practices nature photography, Capoeira, martial arts and organic gardening.
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