Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

The media—stenographers to power.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.”

Go where there is silence and say something.

But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it — everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' — you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'