The Alternative Media Menagerie The danger of throwing pebbles in a glass house is a suitable metaphor for those fringe magnets who inhabit the snow dome that is the alternative media. Menagerie noun a collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition. a strange or diverse collection of people or things: some other specimen in the television menagerie. ORIGIN late 17th century: from French ménagerie, from ménage (see ménage). Fringe magnets is a term invented by Dom Waterson of the Sheep Farm website and podcast and it means those popular public figures who fret about on the ‘alternative’ stage […]