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New York. “I have a dream”. Do you remember Martin Luther King Jr? A young skinny boy wearing a straw hat on the set of “Kid Nation” did too. Did he learn the line? He might have according to some parents of the 40 kids, ages 8 to 15, who were placed in a ghost town in the New Mexico desert to build a society without grown-ups. According to the Los Angeles Times, these parents have told confidentially two Los Angeles-based children advocacy groups that their children were sometimes told what to say by the producers of “Kid Nation”. New York. Rupert Murdoch finally fulfilled his dream. On Tuesday July 31 2007, he sealed a deal with the Bancroft family to buy Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, for $5 billion. In a deal Robert Jensen, professor of journalism at the University of Texas in Austin, calls “disastrous for democracy” (read below), the Journal will now join the ranks of more than 100 newspapers worldwide owned by News Corporation, Mr. Murdoch’s media empire. |
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