Celebs air concerns at media conference
As the National Conference on Media Reform wore down, the mood among the activists and scholars had begun to run high. For the first time, there was a large gathering of media professionals and government employees to discuss the community's efforts in media reform, with talks by celebrities in the field like Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., comedian Al Franken, journalist Bill Moyers, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and \Democracy Now"" host Amy Goodman. After a weekend of talks showed a growing network of citizens they were not alone in a fight to save our nation's mass communications, Moyers previewed the battle ahead: ""What I know to be real is that we are in for the fight of our lives.""