Fact display replaces genuine political debate among these citizens.
Evidence
Given all members’ focus on facts and ignorance, it is no surprise that the only long political discourse I heard at the country-western clubs was a display of information. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1019
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes ‘discourse as information display’ from deliberative talk — a vocabulary point about what counts as political speech.
- XREF: connects to: Disengaged citizens read public debate as mere theatrical self-display — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1785; Discourse exceeds ideology by refusing the true-false distinction about facts