1. Johannesen, Valde, & Whedbee

2.  As we will see, among these values considered central to the optimum functioning of representative democracy are: …

3.  First, we should develop the habit of search stemming from recognition that during the moments we are communicating…  Second…  Finally…

4.  Hook elaborates ten “ground rules” or ethical guidelines for scrutinizing communication… (all 10 “rules”)

5.  Criteria for Persuasion: 1-11  (P. 29) Yet now we witness a crisis in public confidence in truthfulness of public communication…  Strong democratic processes, for example, are rooted…

6.  Just because a communication is of a certain type or comes from a certain source…  As with a defendant in a courtroom, an instance of public communication should be presumed ethically innocent until we, or experts we acknowledge, have proven it guilty.  Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda…

7.  In “Seven Characteristics of the ‘Ethical’ Communicator,” Robert White…  Mortimer Sellers identifies civility, sincerity, community, and toleration…

8.  Civility “requires listening to the arguments made by others in public…  But persons in positions of power…  Grounded Rationality…  Reciprocity…  Racial differences…  Moderation…