“for rethink the democratic role of the media is provided by a seminal study by Habermas”

“discussions in coffee houses and salons etc created… a new public engaged in critical political discussion”

A public space between the private domain and the state in which public opinion was formed and “popular” supervision of the government was established”

“the primary democratic role of the media is to act as a public watchdog”

“once the media becomes a subject to public regulation it will lose its bite”

“reconceptualized and reincarnated in a new form”

‘the watchdog is said to override in importance all other functions of the media”

“regulation state or free market?” liberal or concervative