All are contributing to the discourse. But here too there is a need for caution: if the media is to play its part in the public sphere, the public needs also to be equipped to make the best use of what the media provides. Habermas has commented: “Use of the Internet has both broadened and fragmented the contexts of communication. …[T]he less formal, horizontal cross-linking of communication channels weakens the achievements of traditional media. This focuses the attention of an anonymous and dispersed public on select topics and information, allowing citizens to concentrate on the same critically filtered issues and journalistic pieces at any given time. The price we pay for the growth in egalitarianism offered by the Internet is the decentralised access to unedited stories.”