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Liberty and the News (Hardcover)
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Liberty and the News (Hardcover)
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This little gem of a book, which first appeared in 1920, was
written in Walter Lippmann's thirtieth year. He was still full of
the passionate faith in democracy that was evident in his writings
before the First World War. From today's point of view, Lippmann's
argument seems unusually prescient. He was troubled by distortions
in newspaper journalism, but was also deeply aware of the need to
protect a free press. Lippmann believed that toleration of
alternative beliefs was essential to maintaining the vitality of
democracy. Liberty and the News is a key transitional work in the
corpus of Lippmann's writings. For it is here that he proposes that
public opinion is largely a response not to truths but rather to a
"pseudo-environment" which exists between people and the external
world. Lippmann was worried that if the beliefs that get exchanged
between people are hollow, and bear only a purely accidental
relationship to the world as it truly is, then the entire case for
democracy is in danger of having been built on sand. His concerns
remain very much alive and important.
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