Nobody accepts these Altcoins as currency, or payment, and nobody outside of this forum (and the cryptocurrency community) knows what the hell a Litecoin, Dogecoin, NXT, or Monero is.....
Nope. I've seen a newspaper have listed out a list of altcoins, including LTC, DVC, NMC etc. when featuring bitcoin. Some of the old altcoins are known by non-crypto-er, however the new ones really not.