In a society where freedom of the press is enshrined in the Constitution, our media largely acts as a megaphone for those in power. That's why people… - Amy Goodman

When George W. Bush and his foot soldiers can't build an airtight legal case, suspicion and xenophobia will suffice.

Elected officials will not solve our media crisis alone. The grass-roots movement for media reform is growing, and with mass layoffs in newspaper and broadcast newsrooms, critical elections, burgeoning military budgets and multiple wars and occupations, and with emergent and accessible digital-media tools and networks increasingly available to most people, there is no better time to join it.

This bears repeating: the sixty-two wealthiest people-a group that could fit on a bus-control more wealth than three and a half billion people.