Without a legitimate platform, counter-narratives cannot be effectively voiced

Evidence

For either one could say, No, that is not really like that, or it is this way, provided of course there was some way of saying such a thing effectively, as well as some place in which to stand and say it. For the official Saudi spokesperson there was no way and no place, except in the culturally discredited mode of attempting to prevent the film from being shown at all. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 215

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supports ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s theme that official apologists for contested practices lack a credible platform to defend them.
• XREF: connects to: Echo chambers are porous to networking yet resist dissonant voices. — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 46; Media’s total mobilization makes communication of transcending contents technically impossible — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 312