In 1997 media activists from across the country met in New York to discuss the slippery slope of media privatization so pervasive in our current times. PTTV captured the presentations of Bob McChesney, Makani Themba, Laura Flanders, Nolan Bowie and Linda Foley. This panel of media scholars, journalists, critics, lawyers and activists covers a wide range of topics from the globalization of media and the eradication of independent community based news, to the way corporate media effects public and social policy.