Timothy Dale's Analysis

Thirdly, Timothy Dale (2010) argues that the public sphere is broader than some previous scholars claim. Initially believed by many academics to commonly take place within traditional institutions, Dale asserts that political expression also takes place in other forms such as in art and popular culture. He reasons that thinking more broadly about the public sphere opens up political comment to a multitude of spaces encompassing many forms of media, and thus includes television programming. He asserts that television’s mass appeal allows for creating dialogue within our culture, which means that it is possible for some television programming to operating as political comment. Therefore, taking Dale’s argument into account with Benjamin’s and