Take 3 Minutes to Stop Media Monopoly: Phone It In.

A message from Robert and John Nichols:



and

launching a movement for a truly democratic media system.

A victory here and now will be of immeasurable value.

Call your Congressional representatives and demand that

they support the

rollback. One phone call from a constituent is more

effective than scores

of email petitions.

Go to www.mediareform.net/stopthefcc and follow the easy

steps or read on

for more information.

Big media is getting bigger and our democracy is at

stake.

As you know, a month ago the FCC dramatically relaxed

media ownership

regulations, suffocating the cornerstone of American

democracy: a free,

fair, and open public debate.

Because one million Americans raised their voices

against the FCC decision,

the Senate Commerce Committee recently sent a bill to

the Senate floor for

a vote that would roll back many of the rules. Today the

challenge is to

get that bill to the floor of the Senate and House for a

vote.

(Don't worry, you don't need to know your Senators' or

Representative's

names, only your zipcode.)

"Roll Back the FCC" legislation now has 38 supporters in

the Senate (out of

100). We need 51 for passage.

The House bills have the overlapping support of 65

cosponsors on HR 2462 and

146 on HR 2052. We need 216 for passage.

The www.mediareform.net/stopthefcc website will tell you

if your members of

Congress are currently supporting rolling back the FCC.

If they are

supportive co-sponsors, then thank them for their

support and ask that they

keep the bill alive. If they not a co-sponsor, ask them

to become one.

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Want to learn more about this issue and media reform? Go

to our new

organization called Free Press at www.mediareform.net.

Join Free Press.

Call Congress.

For our media, for our Democracy.

Please send this email along to anyone else you think

might be interested in

having a healthy democratic media system.



Robert McChesney & John Nichols

Free Press

MediaReform.Network