I want you all to be aware that the Bush-appointed FCC voted Tuesday to loosen media ownership rules so huge media conglomerates like FOX and ABC can swallow up more local news outlets. Of course, these same news outlets are doing whatever they can to prevent you from finding out about what's going on....and they are of course doing a fine job since they have a large control over what you learn about.

Please take a few minutes to educate yourself on this huge issue at hand. Maybe even sign one of the various online petitions, forward this message, or make a nice holiday season donation to the cause in honor of a loved one or something.

Per MoveOn.org: "Congress has the power to reverse this rule change, and a bipartisan group of 26 Senators already announced they'll try. We need the rest of the Senate to know we're paying attention and we want action."


More detailed info info, and sign petitions at freepress.net, stopbigmedia.com

Make donation or sign petition at www.civic.moveon.org/mediaconsolidation


These corporations are solely profit driven and have no interest in providing the information necessary for a healthy democracy; they instead focus on sensational and entertaining news and programming that will help their advertisers sell more products and services.

Media consolidation gives more power to the wealthiest people in our society who have common interests and points of view. These new laws will continue to shatter the wide realm of independent voices needed to present us all with a plurality of viewpoints necessary for us to reach our own viewpoints about our lives and society.

"If commercialism provides the logic for all speech, the commitment to public communication disintegrates under the obsession with material self-interest." Alexander Meiklejohn


Thanks for caring enough to read this far...