"It has collapsed because of the conscious work of new generation of opposition inside which worked for two decades on building up an alternative system of information, knowing that's the most important,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

In 1996, online news was considered an alternative information source -- 53 percent of online users surveyed in 1996 said they used online news because other media did not provide enough news.

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Several others states, including Massachusetts, Maine, Indiana and Iowa, are making plans to request information about alternative exams.

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Some firms, such as Britain's ClickMango.com, plan to avoid this by focusing on direct-to-consumer sales and information on alternative medicine.

ECONOMIST: E-health