As I sit down to write this post, the congressional job-approval rating is hovering around 12 percent. It has been for the past three months.

Big broadcasters want to expand their market influence, cut jobs and slash local news coverage. They have an opening — the Federal Communications Commission is currently reviewing all of its media ownership rules. These rules determine how many media outlets a corporation can own, and broadcasters are angling for fewer restrictions at the expense of our communities’ need for vital news and information. Just as the fight is heating up, blogger the Frugal Dad reminds us just how much power and influence broadcasters already have. Check out the infographic, then take action. 

Since the beginning of his crackdown against the Occupy Wall Street movement, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has gone to great lengths to present himself as a champion of the First Amendment. But the free speech rhetoric coming from City Hall hasn't matched the brutal reality journalists have experienced on the front lines of the protest.

In the two months since the movement began, 26 journalists covering OWS events across the country have been arrested. More than half of these arrests have occurred in New York City, where 12 journalists were arrested in the last week alone.

Big corporations have become a focal point for the nation’s anger and mistrust (see: Occupy Wall Street). It’s no wonder. As millions of Americans struggle to keep their homes and their jobs, big companies are continuing to post — and trumpet — record profits. That fact alone has many of us outraged.

A new report, “Corporate Taxpayers & Corporate Tax Dodgers,” is sure to outrage us even more. Produced by Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the study examines the income taxes paid (or not paid) by 280 companies in the Fortune 500.