In some respects, and again following the lead of French sociology, this appears to be the product of the marriage of a profound skepticism of the value of journalism to correctly curate public opinion in liberal democratic states (along with the recognition of their power to do just that; Pierre Bourdieu, 'Public Opinion Does not Exist' 1972), aligned with a sense that intellectuals must exploit that technology as a vanguard to appropriately guide the masses ("What must be… [read post]