china stories. >> jack maher is close to the party and state leaders of china.so it is most unlikely that he would want his newspaper to run critical articles about individual leaders or policies. a former china editor of the post who says many colleagues at the paper are unhappy with what they see as an erosion of hong kong's press freedom. >> for the chinese party propaganda is important. they feel if they can control the mass media, then it will facilitate their effort to enhance political control of hong kong. >> reporter: the post joins other media entities being acquired by mainland owners, but the trend is also leading to a rise in online news alternatives in both cantonese and english. >> if you just look at what we intended to do and the overwhelming response we've got, record breaking crowd funding and traffic, then i think the appetite for free press in hong kong is certainly still there. changing technology opening up new fronts in the developing battle for the control of hong kong's media >>> the last surviving white tigercub in a crimean zoo died.

jack. ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: i'm back. with the host of hbo's "real time," bill maher.or religion. have you ever been invited to a dinner party in your life? ( laughs ) are there things you won't talk about? >> i probably wouldn't be invited to your dinner party, because we're very opposite. >> stephen: really, how so? >> well, like... >> stephen: how are we opposite? really? >> you're married and religious. >> stephen: yeah, i'm married and i give religion a shot. yeah, i give it a shot. >> oh, i thought you were a practicing catholic. >> stephen: i am. doesn't mean i'm good at it. ( laughter ) honest to god. i'm not! honest to god. i suck. i suck as a catholic. doesn't mean i don't keep doing- you-- you were raised catholic. >> i was raised catholic. >> stephen: come on back, bill. ( laughter ) the door is always open! golden ticket right before you, all you have to do is humble yourself before the presence of the lord, admit there are things greater than you in the universe that you do not understand. and salvation awaits you. take pascal's wager: if you are wrong, y