Media Reform conference in Minneapolis: Criticism of the media, but a movement still in the orbit of the Democratic Party

The theft of the 2000 election by the Bush camp, along with the deplorable role played by the media in that event, was one of the catalysts for the creation of Free Press.

The politically and intellectually degraded state of the American mass media is a pressing issue facing the US and, for that matter, global population. Over the past decade in particularfrom its complicity in the manufactured sex scandal against Bill Clinton and the hijacking of the national vote in 2000, through its failure to ask questions about or investigate the events of September 11, 2001, to its criminal role in facilitating the war against Iraqthe American media has figured prominently in the assault on democratic rights at home and the drive for world domination by the US ruling elite around the world.