POL 3133 Study Guide - Soft Media
11 Jul 2014
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He suggested that mass societies in the 20th century showed wide disparity in status among its citizens and serious questions about educational levels and access to information. He further suggested that disparities in wealth had created disparate access to the forms of communication that were assumed to shape debate. This required that the discussion be conducted independent of influence by state interests, independent of the interests of the estates (moneyed interests), and even without undue emphasis upon parochial private interests. Lipman: public is too dumb and uninformed to create a mandate for political parties, parties must create a mandate and then convince the public on it, not vice versa . If we included the public in discussions on issues and policy then they would be able to form opinions and contribute to solutions. Acknowledged the criticism that the public might be too wide spread to come to any type of meaningful consensus on issues.
