THE NOTION OF “PUBLIC INTEREST?”
1 – WHAT KINDS OF POLICIES ARE CENTRAL, TO LET MAKERS AND USERS OF MEDIA FOR PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION HAVE CONTROL, AND HOW CAN THESE POLICIES FOSTER AND SUPPORT PUBLIC MEDIA?
2 – HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN SOMETHING IS OF PRIVATE INTEREST VS PUBLIC GOOD?
3 – HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE THE NOTION OF “PUBLIC INTEREST?”
Sample Solution
THE NOTION OF “PUBLIC INTEREST?”
How would you define the notion of “public interest?” the concept of the public interest clearly occupies a pre-eminent position among the more general concepts which the social scientist finds himself obliged to utilize. Psychological, sociological, and economic phenomenon often must be judged to be compatible or incompatible with the public interest – but it is the political scientist whose work is most intimately connected with the concept. This question is at the heart of the project of political philosophy, that of legitimation. Public interest, if it can be defined, serves as the fundamental criterion for establishing the legitimation of power. Political power, the, is legitimate and necessary, and even acceptable, only in as much as it can be established that it serves public interest.
