January 6 hearings shifted public opinion very little

Evidence

Some hearings would be curated and televised in order to educate the public and build a broad consensus of support. They would have to be more impactful than the January 6 Commission hearings, which most agree did very little to change public opinion. Less than 10 percent of the public acknowledged watching the hearings “very closely.” The hearings must grab the attention of ordinary people in order to build support for reparations, which is why the public figure appointments would be crucial. The PtSD Commission would need buzz to capture the public’s attention in a world full of distractions. The task ahead of the commission would not be for the faint of heart. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 529

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘most agree’ framing is asserted without citation — worth checking whether public opinion polling actually showed a negligible shift, since the reader needs hard evidence.
• XREF: Connects to persuasion/ritual communication literature: televised commissions as a mode of civic pedagogy with weak demonstrated effect. — connects to: Public hearings are preference tallies, not meaningful deliberation; Less than ten percent of the public watched Jan 6 hearings closely — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 529; Factual hearings rarely shift entrenched public opinion — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1145 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Public hearings are preference tallies, not meaningful deliberation; Less than ten percent of the public watched Jan 6 hearings closely — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 529; Factual hearings rarely shift entrenched public opinion — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1145 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Public opinion forms only through discussion, not correct representations #complicates (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 372