Walter Lippmann and the Crisis in Journalism
Progressive journalist Walter Lippman’s 1922 book Public Opinion still offers a relevant critique of the concept of “public opinion” and journalists’ power to shape it. First in a two-part series. We...
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Can the press still prevent a tyrannical majority opinion as it did in Tocqueville’s time? Second of a two-part series.In America there is a singular power, impregnable to competing powers. We can call...
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