Describe the conditions that must be present for a public forum to exist.
What will be an ideal response?
- Some problem affects people collectively as well as individually.
- Cooperative action is needed to address the problem. Speakers and listeners participate in deciding what to do.
- The decision requires subjective judgment. What should be done is not obvious; there is more than one possible solution, and there is no way for anyone to gather all the information that conceivably might bear on the decision.
- Nevertheless, a decision is required. People stand at a fork in the road, and a choice cannot be avoided.
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The World Wide Web has shifted much of the control of communication from the mass media to
A) Internet monitors. B) message senders. C) message recipients. D) software designers.
A speaker talking about regimentation in the public school system defines education as "what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school," quoting Albert Einstein. She is using a
a. definition by etymology. b. definition by authority. c. definition by negation. d. definition by specific examples.