It is interesting, when in Europe, to turn on several news channels and notice how the same events are reported with different slants. But, that is freedom of the press.

What our forefathers did not consider, is that the press would be in a form other than the newspaper and that there would be a World Wide Web and television and radio as means of communications.

When we hear of atrocities which seem to be omnipresent today, I question whether they always were in this vast an amount and we just didn't know about them as communication wasn't broad enough? On the other hand, has communication fostered the atrocities? I wonder if there are any white papers on this?