Why Our Media matters

Stay Free! Daily on Why Our Media matters: "Our Media offers something that creators who make fair use of copyrighted works have needed for a long time coming: a genuinely alternative means of distribution."

update: Bloggers have rights too (re: FEC)

By John Conyers D-Mich

I agree with Thomas Jefferson's sentiments when he wrote, "The basis of our government being the opinion of people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter."

In Jefferson's era, print newspapers revolutionized the way the country read and processed the news. Today we stand on the precipice of a new media revolution with the advent of the Internet. We need to protect bloggers' First Amendment rights so they can help us protect our own citizens' rights.