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Bill Moyers at the 2008 National Conference on Media Reform.
Legendary journalist Bill Moyers electrified an audience of more than 3,500 in Minneapolis on June 7, 2008 calling the media reform movement "the most significant citizens' movement to emerge in this new century."

Dan Rather addresses the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, June 7, 2008 offering a strong critique of journalists' performance in the run-up to the Iraq war.

Bill Moyers on Senate Victory to Stop Big Media

Tell Congress: Investigate the Propaganda Pundits

The New York Times has exposed a secret Pentagon campaign to infiltrate the media with pro-war propaganda. The scheme reaches all the way to the Bush White House, where top officials recruited dozens of "military analysts" to spread favorable views of the war via the news. Many of these propaganda pundits didn't reveal that they were working from Pentagon scripts or lobbying for companies seeking to cash in on major military contracts. This is a violation of every conceivable standard of journalism -- and possibly of federal law.

Send a letter to Congress and demand better media.

A great activist talk by FCC Commissioner Michael Copps at the National Conference on Media Reform.

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps at Senate hearing on Media Consolidation.   The Senate by a vote of 55 to 49 repealed the all of the FCC's new rules enacted under Michael Powell.