The National Conference for Media Reform
The National Conference for Media Reform: June 6-8, 2008
Thousands will gather June 6-8 in Minneapolis-St. Paul for the National Conference for Media Reform 2008. This inspiring event will offer bold visions, new ideas and concrete solutions to building a better media system. Please join us and add your voice.
Do the media cover what’s really happening in your community? Getting the full story? Looking for more choices and alternatives? Will new media fulfill its promise? Is your voice being heard in Washington? The only way to fix the media is to organize and fight for change. People from all walks of life and across the political spectrum are joining the movement for media reform — a rapidly growing effort to create a more diverse and democratic media system.
Live coverage of this conference will be available on Free Speech TV. Live streaming video will also be available at www.freespeech.org.
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Activist dimension someday?
A big leap forward for these great but academic conferences will be when they add some out-of-the-hotel real-world activism exercises.
Bring a few thousand people to a senator's office or an FCC branch or a broadcast station or telco in the next conference's city. "Break Up The Media Monopolies!" "Internet Freedom!" "Fox News Sells Wars!"
Imagine the impact for change on the highlighted issues. Imagine the learning experience for attendees to take home.
We do too many damn preaching-to-the-choir intramural conferences. But we could quickly learn that the power of our assembled numbers goes far beyond generating emails statistics for politicians.
Show us how at the next NCMR.
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thank you fstv
You allowed me to be there, though I couldn't travel, to hear and absorb the inspiring words of really great minds, to feel a part of the group using the hall interviews and unscheduled "dead air" and finally, to understand the coming battles concerning net neutrality.
Hearing the Senators and the FCC commissioners gave me information I didn't have. Hearing Van Jones gave validity to some of my own thoughts. Hearing Amy brought tears (it always does,,am I allowed to feel proud of her while watching her success?).
Your channel is the only reason I watch tv. Thank you to each of you for doing your job and then doing more. It is noticed and appreciated.