It's Friday morning at the National Conference for Media Reform and I have just set up the info table we are sharing with LCCR. Free Press has done a wonderful job getting people to this event, and they expect over 3000 attendees over the weekend.

This has drawn the interest of Bill O'Reilly, who thinks everyone here is a kook, and has dispatched a film crew to try to find a few kooks and then air them on his show to say that everyone who cares about media reform is a kook. Cute.

There are a lot of Common Cause folks here at the conference. Staff, volunteers, state board members, and Bob Edgar.

Last night, Bob gave a rousing speech at the Claim Democracy event at the Hilton, reminding all the 400 or so people in attendance that we are now all part of a movement with different elements. It's no longer good enough to be just a member of an organization, but we all need to be part of a broader movement that organizations are one element of. After he was done, Democracy Now's Amy Goodman gave a fantastic and inspiring speech about the role of the media in our democracy (among other things).

Well, now I have to go network and learn a few things. more to come.