Warner 145, perhaps summarizing Eliasoph's argument: "Journalists report on citizens' feelings or interests rather than their arguments"
"Journalists and officials actively conspire to limit public discussion, diverting it into testimony that can be viewed as private passion rather than opinion or argument. They solicit people to regard their public spirit as good feeling, compassion, volunteerism, or anything that can be divorced from the conflict of views"
in this way, they retain their "role of the uncontested mediators of publicness"
Interesting, though does this stand up to scrutiny