We stand at a crossroads in the history of the media reform movement, a moment when traditional media are in disarray, and a new form of communications and organizing -- more grassroots and decentralized -- is on the rise. The Internet is upsetting conventional wisdom about "mass media" and changing media power in ways never before imagined. But change also raises new threats. Will an open Internet succumb to the same companies that control traditional media? The new challenge for media reformers is to organize around a new set of policies and ideas that will finally give us an advantage in the decades-long struggle against the gatekeepers.

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