In this debate, we question the status of professional voices in the public media. Analysing the specific profile of the media speaker, and especially the loud reader as a mediator, a reproducer of second-hand texts, we highlight the faithful and authorative transmission of voice to the Other. We thus attribute to the ancient, mediaeval and modern herald a specific way of speaking: The speech of this type of voice medium stands for an institutional, public, social scene. On this basis, we argue for a thesis on the mission of modern professional messengers, which is, ideally, the practical realisation of the conditions of the possibility of a public use of reason. To be at the service of the public is then to be at the service of universality and, at the performative level, to realise the conditions of sociality. We are foregrounding the announcer as the voice of the public media, whose stance is essentially conservative in relation to the prevailing social discourse and also to the codified standard of the spoken national language, in our case Slovene. Lending voice to the Other imposes the erasure of all traces of speaker's own subjectivity (as a 'person' he is placed in suspension) and maximum 'noiselessness' - like, say, the State, he has no accent. Hence the accentuated fidelity to the submitted word, which is defined by listening to the announcer's loud interpretation of the texts, or rather by the notion of logical reading (promoted by the existing paradigm of the radio school of speech), and negatively by the discussion of vocal narcissism. The voice of the public is not first and foremost Beautiful, it does not show itself, it is pure, aseptic and uniform, and as such it is suitable for the ears of the public.
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