"A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

Media For America helps ordinary citizens comprehend the importance of media reform and join with other community groups in a few specific activities essential to the revitalization of republican democracy. MFA is working with church groups, seniors, media educators and others to involve one million new citizens in the historic public lobby of three million who voiced their opposition to the controversial 3 - 2 decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in June, 2003 to allow even greater concentration of media ownership in the United States. Click here to learn who owns what.

Reductions in reporting staffs at commercially based news organizations across the country have created a genuine crisis in American journalism for which there are no easy solutions. At stake is the health of our democracy.