| This past weekend, members of the Democracy Now!
crew traveled to Madison, Wisconsin to attend the National
Conference on Media Reform hosted at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, comedian Al Franken and consumer
activist Ralph Nader were among the hundreds who attended this
weekend to discuss the concentration of media power. Speakers
also included public TV journalist Bill Moyers, AFL-CIO
President John Sweeney, five members of Congress and others.
On Sunday, political author Al Franken spoke in front of a
packed house at the Orpheum Theater.
Earlier in the evening, 91-year-old author and radio
personality Studs Terkel introduced the speakers. Terkel has
said of Franken "Three of the best-selling authors in
America are Franken, Michael Moore and Molly Ivins. That should
tell you something. The people are ahead of the politicians and
the media, as usual."
- Al Franken, author of the best-selling new book Lies
and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look
at the Right. He spoke Saturday night at the National
Conference on Media Reform in Madison, Wisconsin.
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