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Yeah, that’s been the thinking at least since Lippmann’s time.

If you only vote on local issues, you don’t need media to inform you since you can see it first hand. But as soon as the average citizen is expected to keep up with state, national, intl politics you need a media capable of informing them.



What's even more interesting is that Lippman proposed a separate entity which was meant to inform the media!




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