The Media and State Accountability, from DfID's Media and Good Governance BriefingAnne-Katrin notes in her post “Defining the Public Sphere (In Three Paragraphs)” that the idea of the public sphere may not be clearly understood. Addressing this problem she claims, “Two-way communications between citizens and public officials constitute the public sphere, therefore we need free and independent media systems that facilitate this two-way flow of communication.”