While speaking with Philip Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina a while ago, he mentioned the “spiral of silence” to me, not sure if I’d ever heard of it. It was coined by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann asdf– people who think that they are
elizabeth be-neumann
failure to speak up — didn’t know about each
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