Dates and times:

• On a gray December morning in 1981 (year)
• Within hours
• Every night at seven-thirty
• In the winter of 1989
• Sixteen years ago

People:

• Anna Semborska (interesting name)
• Semborska (last name)
• Who was seventeen (age)

Locations:

• In Warsaw (interesting location name)
• In a little town called Swidnik, near the Czech border
• In the center of town

Phrases:

• Pushed the boundaries
• Of what people in Poland could say
• Under Communist rule
• Although it had been
• With the rise of the labor union
• One story involved the dogwalkers
• State-run television
• Silent act of protest and solidarity
• We refuse to watch
• We reject your version of truth
• The rise of public opinion

• At best, they could try
• Leaders of the movement
• Owed a good deal to the coming
• And the effect it had on
• Walesa asked rhetorically
• In retrospect,
• Looking at the evolution of
• We may wonder if
• Euphoria of the moment
• Less a reflection of
• Naivete
• Burst of optimism
• Coming from a part of the world
• Its power to do good
• In the emerging democracies
• A group of journalists gathered in Prague
• That had subverted it with
• That undermined freedom
• Freedom of thought
• Implicit
• Much of the discourse
• Lack of reflection about
• Dominate the twentieth century
• License
• When we began our journey to
• Were likely to provide
• When pressed to account for
• Newsrooms were insulated from
• Working in the public interest
• These simplistic questions
• Were more harmful
• Skepticism
• Invited skepticism from the public
• Ability to comment openly
• Impassioned
• Virtuous

• By their silence, newspeople
• Smug, moralistic idealists
• Journalists failed to think
• Imagine their motives were so virtuous
• Open and competitive marketplace
• The simplistic refrain
• Is exposed
• Anyone with a computer can claim to be
• The norms of profession
• Are being pulled and redefined
• Sometimes abandoned altogether
• Perhaps, some suggest
• Now anything can be seen as journalism
• On closer examination
• The techniques they employ
• But by something more basic
• For all that has changed about journalism
• If not always well served
• Since the notion of a
• There exists a clear theory
• News’s function encompasses several elements
• Knowledge rooted in reality
• Serve as a watchdog
• Push people beyond complacency
• Offer a voice to the forgotten 
• One of the most innovative thinkers about
• At its best, as we will also show
• Today, ironically,
• The long standing theory
• The purposes of journalism are being challenged
• At odds with