Warner notes that the United States suffers under an "extreme segregation of journalistic and intellectual publics [...] They are segregated not just by attitude and style but by the material conditions of circulation"
"trade and academic publishing have been institutionalized as distinct fields of production to a much greater degree than in any other country"
and "the decentralization of the American university system prevents it from providing the coherent platform of authority that is to be found in more frankly elite systems such as that of France"
(all quotes 147)