  This thread is intended to be the one part of this blog that contains any negativity,  i. e.  this thread talks about what is,  rather than what can and will be.  I will update this constantly.
 Feel free to post any comments or additional quotes/ stats/ etc.  Good sources for discovering what is right &  wrong about the current media environment are:  http:
www. freepress. net ( great state of the union site)  http: www.
mediacarta. org/  ( uniting media activists)  http: www.
pbs. org/ now/ politics/ mediaconsol. html (
Bill Moyers coverage of consolidation)  http: www. ourmediavoice. org/  (
uniting media activists)  http: www. corporations. org/ media/
 ( media reform)  http: www. media- alliance.
org ( media reform)  http: www. pcug. org.
au/ terryg/ media. htm ( OZ media reform)  http:
www. knowthecandidates. org/ ktc/ Whymedia. htm (
state of the union)  http: www. stateofthenewsmedia. org ( news media reform)
 http: www. thirdworldtraveler. com/ Media_Reform/ Media_Reform.
html ( media reform)  http: www. nicholasjohnson. org/
writing/ masmedia/ ncmr1107. html ( media reform)  http:
www. americanreview. us/ reform. htm ( media reform)
 http: elj. warwick. ac. uk/ jilt/
commsreg/ 97_3fein/ feintuck. htm ( media reform)  http:
www. clubofamsterdam. com/ content. asp? catid=
108 ( think tank)  http: www. yesiwill. org (
voting/ activism)  http: www. broadcastingcable. com (
industry trade)  http: www. truemajority. org/ who/
 ( activism)  http: www. childrennow. org (
children's rights)  http: www. mediafamily. org ( media's effects on kids &
 families)  http: mediarevolution. blogspot. com/  (
bringing to light issues which are being ignored in the mainstream media)
