Reporters can start out poorly educated and dumb but they are forced to become knowledgeble, sensetive and aware of all historical movements. This may be the activity of the rest of your life. Remember that the guys who are doing the xxx thing here are the same ones that excomunicated Leonarod DeVinci and Kazinzakis, actually they also did Coprinicus and anybody else with a brain. Pitiful really.

Excommunication Is Sought for Stem Cell Researchers
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Stem cell researchers should be punished in the same way as
women who have abortions and doctors who perform them, a
senior Vatican official said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/01/world/europe/01vatican.html?th&emc=th

Well talking about subversion of the democracy:

BUSH JOINS IN CONDEMNING N.Y. TIMES
U.S. President George W. Bush has joined the chairman of the House
homeland security committee in denouncing the New York Times for
publishing a story last week about a secret financial-monitoring
program used to trace alleged terrorists.
FULL STORY:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/06/26/congressman-new-york-times.html

A PS to this is that the Canadian government, and I'm sure others, is investigating the possibility that Canadain and International laws were broken with this secret financial-monitoring. Breaking laws has seldom stopped the White House in the past.

Remind me to tell you about the virtual reality world 2nd Life. See you next week for the last class. I have now gotten the video player worked out. Clark

I would like you to spend about 10 min. of your time looking over this web site of Reporters without Borders. Find the PDF of the Webs Black Holes and show it to me in the first 5 min. of class on Thur. and you'll get ten bonus points.

I have gotten some questions about this weeks assignment. A future story that you have to research yourself about the weather,fashion, business,the internet or what ever else you can think about were a future story would be appropriate. Good Luck. See you on Thur. Clark

We've talked about some of the threats to a free and open society and free and open news which is supposed to support it. Here is an article that clearly outlines this problem in the U.S.A. What happens there has often already happened in other places or is just about to.
Check it out at The Nation:>http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20060703&s=crispinmiller
Mark Crispin Miller on the Death of News
Although its history is far from glorious, the US press has never been as bad as it is now.
Date filed: 25-06-2006