Attendees at this year’s National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis were greeted daily by the gleaming Gateway Arch, a symbol of the new frontier. And based on the packed corridors at the sold-out conference, the media reform movement is going places—even if the 2,500 attendees at this mid-May conference weren’t all traveling in the same direction. Nonpartisan anti-consolidation activists… return to article
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Reader Comments (6)Page 1 of 1 pagesBravo for those who attended this conference.
There must be an absolute change in the FCC laws regarding the labeling of actual news and newsinfotainment punditry. It is a total disservice to America to willfully keep important stories “under wraps” to satisfy the party in power and their corporate handlers.
Posted by Margaret on May 26, 2005 at 7:39 PM We have a long long long road ahead of us before we can hope to see any changes in FCC rules, election rules, labor laws, tax codes, evironmental rules, or an end to endless war.
If we can’t get rid of the computerized paperless voting machines, the weapon used in at least two election thefts, we will never get a chance to do anything else that needs doing. Attendees and media professionals should make it job one to educate the public on this threat to democracy.
Posted by Kenneth D. Brown on May 26, 2005 at 10:38 PM The only unfettered and uncontrolled sources of news are now on the Internet. That’s a fact. Check out the news on any of the major alternative news sites and see for yourself how many of the important stories of any day were reported on the mainstream news networks…or even in the print media.
Check out today’s headlines (any day) on TvNewsLIES, in all the major areas of importance, and contrast the news to any coporate media source. You’ll be amazed:
Posted by Reg on May 27, 2005 at 12:11 AM “Bravo for those who attended this conference.
There must be an absolute change in the FCC laws regarding the labeling of actual news and newsinfotainment punditry. It is a total disservice to America to willfully keep important stories “under wraps” to satisfy the party in power and their corporate handlers.”
Posted by Margaret on May 26, 2005 at 2:39 PM
There’s a more succinct description ===> fascism.
Posted by Lefty on May 29, 2005 at 3:49 PM It strikes me as curious that Ms. Clark’s account includes no mention of the closing speech by Bill Moyers.
Posted by Richard Knee, freelance journalist on May 30, 2005 at 6:35 PM Richard:
We ran an adapted version of Bill Moyers’ speech in the same issue of the magazine as this article, so I figured there was no need to mention it in this short account.
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