Glad you enjoyed the conference so much. The problem I see is that you have just fallen into the same trap of kissing the asses of all these “media reform icons� as many of the attendees did. All that Freepress did was get a bunch of liberals with recognizable names to do a big cheerleading routine for their movement and sign a bunch of books. I have never heard more people patting themselves on the back in my life. I would think that an IMC would have an article that took the conference more to task than this did and if nothing else gave me a better feel for the strengths and weaknesses of the various sessions you attended. All this feature does is repeat back a bunch of meaningless slogans that you heard famous people say. Don’t get me wrong, I think Amy Goodman is a capable journalist and that has had a very positive effect on the independent media movement in this country but I think everybody would be better served if we took all the energy that is spent idolizing people like her and start fighting the establishment with this great IMC infrastructure we have built. After meeting so many incredible people, I have no doubt that many of the best minds in American radicalism are in the IMCs. Freepress can keep waiting for their policy reform while we build a media revolution. I will be very interested to see how Freepress responds to the criticisms of those who felt marginalized by the conference.