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Title: Pay Attention! Achtung!
Subtitle: Electronic Media and the Ethos of Dialogue in Late Modern Democracy
Author(s): WHITE, Stephen K.
Journal: Ethical Perspectives
Volume: 7    Issue: 2-3   Date: September 2000   
Pages: 151-161
DOI: 10.2143/EP.7.2.503801

Abstract :
A plausible scenario for the future of electronic mass media news goes something like this. On the one hand, there will be the nightly television news, some of it brought to us by public entities and some by private, increasingly concentrated, corporate entities. On the other hand, there will be continually streaming sources of news available over the internet; and each of us will be able to construct, in effect, a tailor-made, continually revisable package of news. What I want to do in this paper is reflect on the normative ideals in terms of which we ought to assess developments along these two paths. I will be assuming, along with the conference organizers, that these ideals must draw upon our notion of democratic dialogue. But what exactly is our notion of democratic dialogue? And how exactly should we bring it to bear on the two media paths?

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