The Public as Dummies
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Knowledge
- Vol. 10 (2) , 99-110
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0164025988010002001
Abstract
A number of recent public polls and commentaries on the media have suggested that the American public is woefully uninformed across a broad range of issues and topics, to the extent, as one such commentator argues, that citizens “are not mentally prepared to continue the society because they basically do not understand the society enough to value it.”Keywords
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