Quote: " Some have tried to define a public in terms of a common interest, speaking for example of a foreign-policy public, or a sports public. But this way of speaking only pretends to escape the conundrum of the self-creating public. The idea of a common interest, like that of a market demand, appears to identify the social base of public discourse, but the base is in fact projected from the public discourse itself, rather than external to it."
Question: Do you agree or disagree with this quotation? In this case, is a common interest public viewed as a genre convention for a specific discourse group? Why is this view correct and or incoorect to Warner?
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