# Counter C00174: Create a healthier news environment

* **Summary**: Free and fair press: create bipartisan, patriotic commitment to press freedom.  Note difference between news and editorialising.  Build alternative news sources: create alternative local-language news sources to counter local-language propaganda outlets. Delegitimize the 24 hour news cycle.  includes Provide an alternative to disinformation content by expanding and improving local content: Develop content that can displace geopolitically-motivated narratives in the entire media environment, both new and old media alike.

* **Playbooks**: 

* **Metatechnique**: M007 - metatechnique, M002 - diversion

* **Resources needed:** 

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA01


| Actor types | Sectors |
| ----------- | ------- |
| [A021 media organisation](../generated_pages/actortypes/A021.md) | S010 |



| Counters these Tactics |
| ---------------------- |



| Counters these Techniques |
| ------------------------- |
| [T0045 Use fake experts](../generated_pages/techniques/T0045.md) |
| [T0010 Cultivate ignorant agents](../generated_pages/techniques/T0010.md) |
| [T0022 Leverage Conspiracy Theory Narratives](../generated_pages/techniques/T0022.md) |
| [T0044 Seed distortions](../generated_pages/techniques/T0044.md) |



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