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This 10 page media analysis paper describes the role of media in providing a 'public sphere' for a truthful exchange of ideas. The theories of Habermass are discussed and compared to the peacetime incident of the Greenpeace/Brent Spar case ane the wartime situation of the Gulf War. Examples and quotes given. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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that they could have foreseen how this freedom would be utilized in the future. The public arena has often been the place where issues of community and country were discussed
in an open forum. Now, the media fulfills this function, only instead of a rational discussion about public matters as free and equal participants, it is quite plain that the
media restricts, slants and delivers biased opinions courtesy of the highest bidder. Jurgen Habermass The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere was written to show the function of the public
sphere, as it was at the time, and as it should be in the future. He did this by illustrating and contrasting various public forums and processes, mainly the Greeks
with their Lysiums and progressive democratic ideas, and those ideas of the bourgeois governments of the nineteenth century. He seems to rather lean toward the idea of the original ideas
of Dewey, Marx and Rousseau in that he believed in the public forum that would allow people to free themselves from parliamentary rule. However, he also contrasts and compares the
decline of that original idea of the bourgeois to the degeneration that was the result of flawed implementation. The ideas of Universal law and of the rights of sovereignty, he
seems to think, were sorely left out of the equation when Marx had developed his theories. Frighteningly enough, Habermas foretold the influence that the media would have on the public
and private spheres of influence in the coming generations. He states that even as early as the late nineteenth century that the private sphere saw private interests assuming political functions
through the manipulation of powerful corporations and personalities. This was the beginning of the end, and he seemed to have seen this train wreck coming. He observes that when
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