# Public interest, public interestedness and the self-organization of need

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The piece distinguishes public interest from public attention and describes news selection as a market-based form of collective censorship.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 9 January 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: journalism, public-interest, media-markets.

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