Who do you think wrote this?

The Reformers are coming! They are many  and hungry to redress the
steep slide of mostly mainstream media into an abyss of cultural waste
infotainment, shallow journalism, ignorance of real issues, celebrity
worship and lockstep support for government folly  war, corporate
power, enriching the rich, and consolidating their own power! This has made
mincemeat of the medias responsibility to be Americas watchdog, not
Americas lapdog. First Amendment protections have been combined with
untold wealth and control over the flow of useful and important information
citizens need to govern ourselves.

Someone confined to an institution, maybe? 

No – one of many local shills for the “National Conference for Media Reform“, taking place next week at the Minneapolis Convo Center.  Built around the premise that the media is too conservative, and that it must serve a social agenda, the conferences promises enough leftymedia talking heads to prove the greenhouse effect for a couple of days.

Highlights?

Well, there don’t seem to be any in the conventional sense of “people I’d really like to hear speak”.  But there are some notables anyway:

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  Allie Pates – Females United for Action  [not really a “notable”, so much as it sounds like it will be oh so fun]
• Alondra Espejel  – Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network [presumably “media reform” means enabling carefully-selected people from politically-correct groups to ignore the law]
•  Amina Fazlullah U.S. Public Interest Research Group [Uh huh]
• Amy Goodman Democracy Now!
  Andrew Slack  – Harry Potter Alliance [Oh, I get it – going after Voldemort O’Reilly!]
• Arianna Huffington Huffington Post [“Vit enoff money, anyone can make a divvrence, dahling”]
• Bill Moyers – Bill Moyers Journal, PBS [Yes, that’ll teach us to be fair and balanced.  Whooie]
• Bob Edgar – Common Cause [making politics safe for elitist wonks for several decades, now.
• Camille Cyprian – Wellstone Action [Moral of their story:  If the media pays you unquestioning obeisance, you can make a difference!]
• Cenk Uygur  – The Young Turks [“If you are an immature, blowhard wannabee thug, people will pay attention to you!”]
• Chantz Erolin – Yo! The Movement [Sounds like one for Ryan Rhodes or Learned Foot to tackle] 
  Dan Rather – Dan Rather Reports [Huh?  The poster child for the sclerotic arrogance of the “old media”?  This makes no sense – assuming “reform”, rather than institutionalizing the status quo via “the Fairness Doctrine”, weren’t what this charade were all about]
• David Schimke Utne Reader [I’ve had about enough…]
• Duncan Black  – Eschaton / Media Matters for America [I’d like to go to the convention, and ask him “WHY DO YOU HATE LOGIC?”]
• Gina Cooper – Netroots Nation [A self-fisking entry if ever there were one]
• Jane Hamsher – Firedoglake.com [“If you are shrill and trite enough, you can make a difference”]
• Jeff Cohen Park  – Center for Independent Media
• Jefferson Morley –  Center for Independent Media [ I wonder if Mr. Soros makes these guys share a room with Duncan Black and the Minnesota Monitor people?]

…and on, and on, and on…

Never were so many gathered to talk so much about changing so little.