📣 Hello there and WELCOME to your new fave place on the internet!
Our Why
Turn on any news station, and you’ll be inundated with information. It’s a lot for our brains to filter! So, how is Do What You’re Told any different?
Founded in 2022 in Philadelphia, DWYT emerged from a concern over increasing media bias and suppression of truthful information. Here at Do What You’re Told, we believe that most mainstream media is influenced by agendas, advertisers and political and corporate affiliations, which means… they often leave out critical information and manipulate stories.
And while many reputable sources of independent news and commentary, free from conflicts of interest, have popped up over the last few years, these ‘alt media’ sources are not always easy to find.
That’s where Do What You’re Told comes in.
DWYT’s Mission—
To aggregate independent news & views from multiple non-mainstream media sources.
To amplify smart, thoughtful but often suppressed voices, thereby encouraging educated conversations and healthy debates.
We deliver this straight to your inbox via an end-of-week best-of indie media newsletter. 📨
Who Are We?
Just a couple of thoughtful, committed citizens aiming to shift the global conversation with comprehensive, flavorful and hype-free journalism. Your editors are Magdalena, a former radio journalist and conflict mediator based in Mexico City 🇲🇽; and Jennifer, a former L.A. paparazza (😲) and former mainstream media CNN producer (😲), now based in Philadelphia 🇺🇸.
Why subscribe?
If you suspect the mainstream media isn’t giving you the full story due to institutional controls, advertiser constrictions, and newsroom echo chambers, and you value multi-sourced, independent, thought-provoking, high-brow journalism — a lot of which is paywalled at the source but clipped for you by DWYT for free! — then Do What You’re Told is for you.
See you in your inbox. 📨
Peace, love, and dissidence,
—Your snarky, lovable writers, Jennifer & Magdalena
For: Charlie
📣 Special note from Jennifer, our Editor-in-Chief: I dedicate this project and my many hours of trolling the internet for news & views to my 15-year-old son, Charlie. Charlie loves politics, debating and reads/listens to DWYT end-to-end religiously. This labor of love is for all the young Charlies out there, all the teenagers who are taught to do what they’re told, but who must — more importantly — be taught to think for themselves.
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Contact: DoWhatYoureTolders@gmail.com.
