@Adam_Cadmon1@mastodon.online one way to put it is it’s usually predictably *oppositional* journalism, writing against or trying to debunk perspectives of the “mainstream” or “corporate” media.

but it’s even more predictable than that. there might be many different frames/perspectives at variance with a US/Western mainstream. "independent journalists” a very particular frame, oppositional to and undermining of status quo US/Western projects + authorities.

sometimes perusasively! sometimes not.