Tide is Turning on Big Media (The Nation)
The fight now moves to the House, where a bipartisan version of the Senate "resolution of non-approval" (H.J.Res.79) needs your support. Free Press has set any ambitious end of convincing 100 legislators to agree to co-sponsor the House version of the bill in the next 100 days. The Nation is joining the campaign and asking readers to support Free Press' efforts and sign your name to a repaired Nation petition calling without ceasing House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi to make passage of H.J. Res. 79 a top legislative priority in the same manner with soon as Congress comes posterior portion from recess. (This petition behest be delivered to Pelosi as soon as the House reconvenes after its summer break.)
Watch this video by means of Free Press' Alexandra Russell for a re-telling of how the modern Senate victory was achieved and what still needs to be achieved to secure victory in the House.
And understand Free Press' StopBigMedia site for background adhering just why the stakes in this fight are in the same state high.
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