I attended the 2008 National Conference on Media Reform in Minneapolis, MN this weekend.  Am needing a quick sleep before getting too much into it. 

Big points I came to make:

1.  Nothing evil about "corporate" per se, it is after all just a legal means of organizing, let's just agree to call them Consolidated Media
2.  The consolidation of media is half the reason we have this opportunity to report the news—instead of bemoaning their loss, take advantage of it!  But if we, the Distributed Media, ever does hit on a model that is financially successful, we'd better be ready for Consolidated Media to copy it and muscle us out.

Came away with some good info and better thoughts about what media online requires.  Writing about that tomorrow...