Dear Dawn,
It's no mystery. Six major companies control the majority of the media in our country, giving Americans only one point of view, one attitude, and one voice.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took a good look at this situation, weighed all the options, and said: "More media consolidation couldn't hurt."

Well, we here at Common Cause we disagree. And we're going to do something about it. We're asking Congress to disapprove, and thereby overturn the FCC's decision to allow a single company to own both a television station and the local newspaper.

I hope you'll join us as we urge Congress to pass the Resolution of Disapproval of media ownership rules. We've got to do everything we can to secure a strong coalition of members of Congress who are committed to fixing those rules – and we can't do it without you.

Email your members of Congress today, and help take back the FCC's giveaway to Big Media!

If we don't fight this till the bitter end, these new media ownership rules will get us:

• Increased censorship of diverse views
• Fewer jobs for media workers
• Less community-oriented programming, independently-produced programming, and political discussion
• Fewer minority- and women-owned broadcast stations

So far, we've got nineteen cosponsors of the Senate Resolution of Disapproval, and six cosponsors of the House Resolution of Disapproval. But we're going to need more people on board than that if we want to be certain that the media represent all of our voices.