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Chapter 2:Political Perspectives
Johannesen, Valde, & Whedbee
Page 21 As we will see, among these values
considered central to the optimum functioning of representative democracy are: …
Page 22 First, we should develop the habit of
search stemming from recognition that during the moments we are communicating…
Second… Finally…
Page 27 Hook elaborates ten “ground rules”
or ethical guidelines for scrutinizing communication… (all 10 “rules”)
Page 28-29 Criteria for Persuasion: 1-11 (P. 29) Yet now we witness a crisis in
public confidence in truthfulness of public communication…
Strong democratic processes, for example, are rooted…
Page 30 Just because a communication is of a
certain type or comes from a certain source…
As with a defendant in a courtroom, an instance of public communication should be presumed ethically innocent until we, or experts we acknowledge, have proven it guilty.
Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda…
Page 31 In “Seven Characteristics of the
‘Ethical’ Communicator,” Robert White…
Mortimer Sellers identifies civility, sincerity, community, and toleration…
Page 32 Civility “requires listening to the
arguments made by others in public…
But persons in positions of power… Grounded Rationality… Reciprocity… Racial differences… Moderation…