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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: goldworldnet who wrote (332028)12/21/2002 9:32:00 AM
From: Poet  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Hi Josh,

Yes, the social circumstances under which speech occurs provide most of the defining characteristics of private vs. public speech, but not all, IMO. In your example of a dinner table conversation at home versus one at a crowded restaurant, the second scenario would probably result in parts of the conversation being overheard by others, but I think I could still argue that it's private speech.

How about a phone conversation in a phone booth (an anachronism these days -g) in which a person in the next booth can overhear?

Or a formal speech given to a roomful of like-minded individuals (like the KKK). Public or private?

I'm far afield from the Clinton thing here and have no ready conclusions. It's just an interesting issue to me.
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