Initial Barriers

I think that one of the more prominent barriers that Lippman would argue is the barrier between the event and the public, or the idea of a pseudo-environment derived from the actual or real environment. The idea seems to be that if the public is given full access to all information regarding an event, the there is a probability that there will be misconceived impressions. Lippman says that "instead of letting the public act on all the facts [...], the authorities [present] only certain facts, and these only in such a certain way as would be most likely to steady the people. I agree also with an earlier post that mentioned that one of the most immediate barriers is the mere presence of the press, as they are most always pre-picked, asking known, pre-determined questioned to an authority that has known of and approved their presence.