In exchange for free use of the public airwaves, local TV stations are required to serve their communities.

Bill Moyers shares an idea: Go to your local station, ask for the data and start posting it online yourself.

Bill Moyers on what you can do to make television stations more accountable to the public.

Tim Karr explores how dirty politics has become a growth industry for local television stations and their corporate parents.

Excerpted from a November 10, 2011 keynote speech Bill Moyers delivered at American Public Television's annual conference.

Prepared remarks for the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.