Media structure enabling deliberative opinion is a constitutional imperative.

Evidence

In a hard-to-imagine ‘world’ of fake news that was no longer identifiable as such – i.e. a world in which fake news was indistinguishable from true information – no child would be able to grow up without developing clinical symptoms. Therefore, maintaining a media structure that enables the inclusiveness of the public sphere and the deliberative character of public opinion and will formation is not a matter of political preference but a constitutional imperative. — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 49

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The cognitive-harm argument (no child develops normally where fake news is indistinguishable from truth) directly parallels the disturbance-of-attention thesis; useful as a contemporary justification for media infrastructure.
• XREF: connects to: Sovereign influence over government hinges on mass-media enlightening quality. — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 18; Democratic legitimacy requires tacit constitutional consensus renewed each generation — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 66; Media consensus on national identity shapes news without conspiracy or coercion. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 184 (+6 more)

Related

• Sovereign influence over government hinges on mass-media enlightening quality. (similarity 0.84)
• Media orient citizens by sifting out intersubjectively shared interpretations of the world (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Media balance reproduces the shared presuppositions that bracket political disagreement #expands (0.80)
• Sovereign influence over government hinges on mass-media enlightening quality. #corroborates (0.78) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 18
• Media orient citizens by sifting out intersubjectively shared interpretations of the world #expands (0.78) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 41
• Deliberative democracy is agonal dissent atop constitutional consensus, not consensus-seeking talk. #complicates (0.76) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 19
• Democratic legitimacy requires tacit constitutional consensus renewed each generation #qualifies (0.75) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 66
• Political legitimacy requires free speech, association, and representation #expands (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1248
• Constitutional protection has strengthened rights to access information. #expands (0.74) — David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The History and…, 1327
• Media consensus on national identity shapes news without conspiracy or coercion. #expands (0.72) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 184
• When consensus frays, media become the terrain of ideological class conflict #complicates (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 875