Context clues: In 1922, Walter Lippmann, known as the father of American journalism, wrote Public Opinion, on the subject of government, mass communication, and societal perceptions. Late in his life, ...

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ONE of Denmark's leading Second World War resistance figures, Ole Lippmann, has died. He was 86. Lippman, who asked the RAF to bomb the Gestapo headquarters in an air raid that ended as the ...

Liberty and the News is Walter Lippman's classic account of how the press threatens democracy whenever it has an agenda other than the free flow of ideas. Arguing that there is a necessary connection ...