Of the report's findings, Ian Tuttle, who wrote the accompanying article, argued, But what the material in the report reveals is less a culture of racial animus than one of predatory government: "Ferguson's law enforcement practices," states the report, "are shaped by the City's focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs".
Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles reacted to Schoenherr's gloomy statistics by writing, in Our Sunday Visitor (Nov. 18, 1990) that "the Catholic Church in our country has been done a great disservice by the Schoenherr report," since "our future is shaped by God's design for His Church -- not by sociologists".
In Nigeria the course of industrialization is shaped by reports from a free press, in Lesotho by a strong union movement, in Kenya by tribal and ethnic considerations all of which are largely absent in China.
Any democratic deficit is shaped by a reporting deficit.
Take this coming week, when the idea of family, as we report today, is shaping up to be the central question for debate.
Even the new official candor, while involving an outpouring of facts, has been carefully scripted from above, and the voluminous news reports have been shaped to flatter the leaders and present a society unified in heroic struggle.
USA Today reports that "2011 is shaping up to be a banner year for CEO pay".
Mohammed is a member of the UN High-Level Panel (HLP), the recent report of which is shaping the successors to the MDGs.
Yet, as our latest issue of Catalyst In Depth reports, parent engagement is shaping up as a weak link for the Chicago Public Schools' massive school closings.
