Thirty-five hundred media activists, journalists and concerned citizens gathered in Memphis, Tennessee, this weekend for the third National Conference on Media Reform. Speakers called for the preservation of a free and open Internet, the end of media consolidation, and a more democratic and diverse media system. Congressmember Dennis Kucinich announced the formation of a new House committee on media reform. Other speakers included Bill Moyers.

Bill Moyers: “As ownership gets more and more concentrated, fewer and fewer independent sources of information have survived in the marketplace; and those few significant alternatives that do survive, such as PBS and NPR, are under growing financial and political pressure to reduce critical news content and to shift their focus in a mainstream direction, which means being more attentive to establishment views than to the bleak realities of powerlessness that shape the lives of ordinary people.”

We’ll play Bill Moyers’ address from the National Conference on Media Reform on Tuesday.