What about a simple FM radio? I found this project a lot of fun http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/radio/three_penny/three_penny.html and after building it with my nephew is started a whole series of experiments and visits to Radio Shackk for them.

The far more popular myth is the one that says that you have right to publish your opinion. To have your views be forced upon others, and that you have a right to know any and all things. Since you seem to be a consitutional lawyer, please show me using ONLY the language within the actual constitution the wording that forces any of those organizations I mentioned to publish your words. Stop making the term cheap by use of semantics in order to push the overblow imaginary "right to knonw" and publish an opinion.

I get a bit disturbed the continued mis-use of the word "censorship" Censorship is something governments do. Facebook telling you that you cannot post something offensive is not censorship. Slashdot deciding your story or comment is not worthy of publishing is not censorship. Apple deciding to not let pornographic image applications be sold on the the store is not censorship. And certainly deciding to not publish something because a useful tool would be rendered relatively useless is also not censorship. A news agency deciding (on its own) not to publish troop movements is not censorship. The US government telling it that it cannot would be. The difference is not subtle. There is no "right to know" or "right to have access to everything"

Aaaaa I see Godwin's Law has proved itself yet again.

Pulling them away? Are you completly uniformed about the way it works?
I check m y news entirely through the google news site. *EVERY* single time I read an article
it takes me to the website.

Without google, the page hits from me and thousands of other users would never appear.

I agree with an ealier suggestion. Fine, lets have google go down the list and just stop aggregating their news.

Let their add revenue drop even further as page hits drop. Then when they want to be included again *CHARGE* them for it.