NewsBreakers

They're the NewsBreakers and they say "As citizens in a participatory democracy, we can no longer idly standby and let our government offer the airwaves, our common property, to the highest bidder."

It all began last January in Rochester, New York. A group of masked men burst into the local headlines when they disrupted the live news broadcasts of two local television stations, WROC and WHEC.

Taken into police custody, they were were accused of assault, but later released. In a press statement, NewsBreakers said they are a nonviolent media watchdog group that had "freed two live broadcasts" and "temporarily reclaimed the airwaves in the name of the American people." Their aim: to protest what they termed "the wholesale failure of Federal Communications Commission licensees to honor their obligation to the public."