"They completely lost control of the discourse," she said.
Over time, the public space for activism became narrower and narrower in terms of the control of political discourse.
They have summoned images of Citizen Kane, or worse, Big Brother, warning that without strict regulation a few powerful corporations could take control of political discourse while homogenizing entertainment and defanging news.
Nahum Barnea, the main political columnist for the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, said that while the Channel 10 problem was about a failed business, it was part of the struggle for control of public discourse in Parliament.
In a world – in a world – where control of the discourse has basically been ceded to four daytime TV bookers and anyone willing to monster a kid on Twitter, the fact that no one has been able to put together a deal that could appeal to Louise Mensch and Katie Hopkins is nothing short of a cultural scandal.
Three questions in, Obama had shown that he would not be walked over again, and had taken control of the discourse.
It should be clear that talking about blasphemy law is not blasphemy and yet because of our collective fear we have allowed some zealots to actually take complete control of the discourse through creation of false equivalences.
If he doesn't, the lack of straight talk about oil, education, health care, and the long-term impacts of the recession will allow the lunatic fringe of America to take control of the discourse.
I think that they were worried not mainly because they feared the authorities in Singapore (the panel's organizers were recording the session, without telling the audience they were doing it) but because, to some extent, they shared the government's worry about losing control of public discourse in Singapore.
Three different positions in the control of dying discourse were identified.
But the aftermath of last Sunday's parliamentary elections has shaken political assumptions, largely because the authorities seem unable to regain control of the public discourse.
