Northern News Service The origin and performance of an arctic news cooperative, 1988-1992 Howard Weaver Churchill College This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Philosophy in Polar Studies Scott Polar Research Institute University of Cambridge And there poured out, like a sea, beneficent glasnost' ... Oh, do not believe, venerable foreigners, that we are afraid of beneficent glasnost', that we have only now introduced it--and we are frightened by it and are hiding from it. No, we love glasnost' and we caress it like a newborn child. We love this little imp who has just cut small, strong, healthy teeth ... No, we are not afraid of glasnost', we do not shy away from it. It is all healthy, it is the young juices, a young inexperienced force that pulsates like a healthy spring and gushes to the surface. -- Fedor Dostoevskii on the slight weakening of censorship after the abolition of serfdom in Russia, 1861 If I let go the reins of the press, I will not last three months in power. -- Napoleon