“a public space between the private domain and the state in which public opionion was formed and ‘popular’ supervision of government was established” 

“The primary democratic role of the media is to act as a public watch dog overseeing the state.”

Stephan Holmes: “Doesn’t every regulation covering the media into a “neutral form” lessen its capacity to act as a partisan gadfly investigating and criticising government in an aggressive way”

Regulation should be provided by state or public. Should media be sensitised or graphic.