About 2,000 delegates have gathered in St. Louis to "to discuss visionary and practical solutions to the problems of our media."

It's a lefty event. Luminaries like Al Franken, Naomi Klein and George Lakoff will be speaking. Phil Donahue gave a keynote.

The conference website is here.

Newshare is blogging it, as well as Be The Media.

Pacifica Radio will offer coverage, as well as Mediachannel. The St. Louis Independent Media Centre also promises to offer some coverage.

The Toronto Star's Richard Gwynn tears a strip off the U.S.'s nuclear weapons policy.

The allegation was made by a Miami, Fla. sportswriter: Shaquille O'Neal lost the NBA's most valuable player award because he's black and Steve Nash is white.

Standing at College St. and Spadina tonight, there's three westbound vehicles close together, a cab about 30 feet behind them -- and a streetcar on the cab's ass honking angrily.

Media Matters for America says there are reports Abu Faraj Farj al-Libbi is not the high-ranking al Qaeda kingpin that everyone is making him out to be.

Rep. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, was speaking at a media conference earlier this week at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Here is some of his speech as transcribed by Democracy Now!