The United Nations said the report should be published and an open debate fostered: it is a challenge to national reconciliation, indeed, but one that must be faced.
In addition, they (editorials and feature articles) have the capacity to stimulate debate and foster a social environment in which AIDS is addressed in the spirit of openness and communality.
Media freedom advocates have long complained that the laws governing newspapers and televisions stations have stifled political debate and fostered a culture of self-censorship among mainstream journalists.
A new dynamic in the debate was fostered by the rise of Ralph Nader, who after securing the Green Party nomination for president did not wait long to ridicule the vice president as "a gee-whiz techno twit" who had abandoned the disenfranchised in favor of large corporations.
One could even go a step further and argue that the climate change debate has fostered a welcome collapse scenario and has promoted the urgent need for action.
But he said he hoped the article would foster debate.
In institutions supposed to foster debate, non-neoclassical economists have been systematically purged from economics faculties.
Many say Facebook, which has 150 million members worldwide, is a healthy tool to foster debate.
The Economist is doing its bit to foster debate too, with a World Oceans Summit in San Francisco in February.
