Want to change the media? Here are three great campaigns on vital media issues affecting all of us:

StopBigMedia.com

Unchecked media consolidation has allowed too much power over the flow of news and information to fall into too few hands. And the news and information we receive gets worse all the time. Corporate media are silencing diverse voices, abandoning quality journalism, and eliminating local news.

Our democracy needs better media, but to get it, we need to fight for better media policies from Congress and the FCC.

Learn more at StopBigMedia.com

SavetheInternet.com

The phone and cable monopolies that control access to the Internet want to get rid of Net Neutrality, the “First Amendment” of the Internet. Net Neutrality prevents service providers from discriminating against any legal Web sites or services.

These companies are trying to set up toll booths on the information superhighway. They want to decide which Web sites go fast or slow based on who can afford to pay their hefty fees. If they get their way, the Internet as we know it will disappear, and we'll lose this essential platform for free speech, democratic participation and economic innovation. It’s up to all of us who care about a free and open Internet to protect it.

Learn more at SavetheInternet.com

Protect Public Media

Public media is perpetually at risk. Despite overwhelming support for public broadcasting from a large majority of the American people, its funding is under constant threat in Washington by those who would eliminate alternatives to the commercial media and silence critical voices.

We need to protect public broadcasting from the whims of Washington and support vibrant, noncommercial media — including Low Power FM and community radio, public access programming, independent publications and Web sites.

Learn more at freepress.net/publicbroadcasting