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• THE PUNDIT
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• From Pandit, experts on Hindu laws who advised
  British imperial judges
• Like the critic in distinguishing intellect and
  senses but different attitude toward falsehood
  Mencken v. Lippmann
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• Stereotypes as heuristics From Lippmann to
  Schutz
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• Dewey v. Lippmann Can large complex democracies
  be truly participatory?
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• Plebiscitarian democracy Voting as symbolic post
  facto ratification
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• Public opinion polling PR in the service of
  punditry ? Construct the public as a stable
  object of deliberation and ministration
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• Lippmanns dirty hands doctrine Better to have
  journalistic self-censorship than state- or
  business-based censorship
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• Punditrys Achilles heel? Failure to take the
  extremes seriously ? Noelle-Neumanns The Spiral
  of Silence and the rise of Nazism