Believe it or not, "alt-media" is as big, and has recently enlarged itself in an audience that continuously grows, on what you could look at as "a minutely basis".
So the question is? How did this happen?
Allow me to speculate please..
The mainstream [fallacy fake news media] have been targeting their own viewers and audience for the better half or 10 years. In a sense, it was the mainstream media whom has created the "monster" they call alternative media.
Think of it this way. After years of being lied to, mislead, and abused, both within the corporate establishments and outside, And with almost no credible backlash or penalty for false reporting, people not only take notice. They take action.
These "people" fill the (very large) gaps the fallacy media refuses to report on. For significantly less money, if any at all.
What the fallacy media is basically saying to it's remaining viewers and towards "alt-media" is: Americans are turning away from our mass propaganda centers and they are not believing our false journalist anymore, who are distributing false journalism/fake news.
Instead of acknowledging the fact, people are leaving the old guard media in levels of sheer mass. (Just look at the 2017-2018 ratings drop) The fallacy media displays it's denial, and covers up the losses.
How do they do this?
They ironically label everyone who is using more relevant news sources aka "alt-media" as extreme right-wing fringe groups in over drive. The same people they quite literally pushed away through lies and deceit, they openly call "extreme right wingers" and in the same sentence, have the nerve to call the people picking up the media slack, "fake news/conspiracy theory/nazi's" whom are under taking mass recruitment efforts to lead viewers away from their platforms.
Not very business savvy to cast everyone who stop using their service as "extreme fringe group supporters" if you ask me.
Severe social disconnect is the main issue at hand for the MSM. They fail to understand, people naturally gravitate to other(s) they feel a form a relationship to, in some way. When you alienate, and corrupt minds needing positive influence through emotional chaos, discord, confusion and division. People WILL leave.
A public realization happens when society figures out the fallacy media is strictly designed to create reactionary anger and emotional stress, instead of peaking people's intrigue to investigate further and compile a personal conclusion.
So lets face it. The MSM fallacy media at this point, is designed to create a negative emotional reaction. So instead of encouraging it's audience to utilize the vast internet for positive research purposes, the fallacy media gets people to blindly react through sheer emotional response, by means of it's sister organizations, i.e Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Thus creating a truly toxic environment involving the dissemination of fake news.
KellerEM~