Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) was a prominent American writer, journalist, and political commentator, known for shaping public opinion and modern political thought. He co-founded "The New Republic" and later became a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for "The New York Herald Tribune". Lippmann is best known for his influential books, including "Public Opinion" (1922), where he explored the manipulation of mass media and the concept of the "manufacture of consent." His ideas on democracy, media, and political philosophy have had a lasting impact on both journalism and political theory.

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INTRODUCTION The most incisive comment on politics to-day is indifference. When men and women begin to feel that elections and legislatures do not matter very much, that politics is a rather distant and unimportant exercise, the reformer might as well put to himself a few searching doubts. Indifference is a criticism that cuts beneath oppositions and wranglings by calling the political method itself... more...

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION THE WORLD OUTSIDE AND THE PICTURES IN OUR HEADS There is an island in the ocean where in 1914 a few Englishmen, Frenchmen, and Germans lived. No cable reaches that island, and the British mail steamer comes but once in sixty days. In September it had not yet come, and the islanders were still talking about the latest newspaper which told about the approaching trial of Madame... more...