Liberty and the news
by Walter Lippmann · first published 1920
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"Walter Lippman's classic account of how the press threatens democracy whenever it has an agenda other than the free flow of ideas." -- Publisher.
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I really loved and got a lot from his early books like Liberty and the News–about how democracy needs good journalism–and Public Opinion–about how public opinion was manipulated in WW1, and many other things. I've read it many times, one of my favourites. A Preface to Morals…
on “The Basic Problem of Democracy (1919)” ↗Walter Lippmann warned about a century ago, in his seminal “Liberty and the News.” "Men who have lost their grip upon the relevant facts of their environment are the inevitable victims of agitation and propaganda. The quack, the charlatan, the jingo . . . can flourish only where the…
on “The Decline of Historical Thinking” ↗…failure of the media, the start of the propaganda age.. My point is - none of these problems are new. Lippmann was writing about very similar problems 100 years ago. (In that and his other early books, e.g. Liberty and the News - on how somehow, we don't require journalists be qualified, although they have such a vital role in democracy.) It's hard to think that democracy is possible, given these problems. (Saward in his Democracy…
on “The AI Threat to Open Societies” ↗