A first step: Sign up for daily updates on the battle for a free, independent press at freepress.net, the leading media reform group. Locally, search out alternatives to the mainstream in media — ethnic newspapers, local weeklies and magazines, public access television shows — and patronize them and their advertisers.
Resources
Track the FCC’s plans to relax further media ownership rules, fcc.gov/ownership
This article appears in Feb 20-26, 2008.