karen johnston, american university. miss tauscher i very much share some of your concerns. you mentioned the problem of public's level of interest in information on foreign policy issues. but i think there's a missing link here and that link is the role of the media in providing accurate and sometimes any information about some of the foreign policy issues that are of great concern to you and some of the other foreign policy experts and people in government, and so seen from your perspective, not perhaps just you but from the others, what can be done to strengthen this link because there are obviously problems in the business of news, the problems of differentiating between news and opinion, the fact that people now in this media landscape self-select the kind of news sources that they will have which does affect their opinions and views on foreign policy issues. so what can be done? because once the american public is given, informed information about issues, they can give informed decisions and be part of the foreign policy debate. i mean, this has been done with james fi

karen johnston, american university. i very much share some of the concerns. you mentioned the problem of the public's level of interest in information on foreign policy issues. i think there's a missing link here, and that link is the role of the media in providing accurate and sometimes any information about some of the foreign policy issues that are of great concern to you and some of the other foreign policy experts and people in government and so seeing from your perspective, not perhaps just you, but from the others, what can be done to strengthen this link because there are obviously problems in the business of news. the problems of differentiating between news and opinion. the fact that people now in this media landscape self-select the kind of news sources that they have, which does affect their opinions and views on foreign policy issues so what can be done because once the american public is given informed information about issues, they can give informed decisions and be part of the foreign policy debate, done with james on direct democracy and the

. >> thank you, karen johnston, american university. i very much share some of your concerns. you mentioned the problem with the public policy level of interest and information on foreign policy issues. i think there is a missing link, and that is the role of the media in providing accurate and sometimes in the information about some of the foreign policy issues that are of great concern to you and some of the other foreign policy experts and people in government. from your perspective, what can be done to strengthen this link? there are obviously problems in the business of news. the problems of differentiating between news and opinion, the fact that people now in this media landscape self select the kind of -- it does affect their opinions and views on foreign policy issues. what can be done? once the american public is given informed information about issues, they can give informed decisions and be part of the foreign policy debate. this has been done with the research on the make democracy -- on direct democracy. there was an interesting report on providing its permission