I remained completely uninformed about what the corporate media insisted was important. You know, I didn't miss a thing. Alternative media can fully replace the corporate media for your everyday information needs. Alternative media is local. The best sort of alternative media is a mailing list.
Mailing lists are easy to maintain and easy to post to.
You probably have several community groups who support a mailing list. Alternative media needs no news hooks. The corporate media tries to be relevant by hooking news stories to current events. For example, the corporate media waits until their is a race riot, a racially motivated killing, or some elected official says something about race, before they will do a news story on racism in America. The alternative media is dedicated to bringing you stories that are always relevant because they are worthy of consideration, not because they are topical.