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YasminBeachy: A Test of the News - by Charles Merz and Walter Lippmann— Need 21st century version of this seminal essay-/

iojknkn: Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed ~Walter Lippmann

IdealistAnarchy: ... in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats.” –Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals, News Brunswick: NJ, Transaction Publishers (1982) p. 80. First published in 1929.

CKellyUAP: CLOWN SHOW WORLD We are being governed by incompetent fools.

Alonzo62: The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Walter Lippmann

AppRealityCheck: “Walter Lippmann spoke of men who plant trees that other men will sit under. Ben Graham was such a man.” Warren Buffet

josegallisa: "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much" -- Walter Lippmann

cdfliong: “Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.” —Walter Lippmann

lyman_brian: Baron is correct that Walter Lippmann’s idea of journalistic objectivity was A) not neutrality and B) a reaction to the failure of the older neutrality model to fight the propaganda of World War I. The problem is that Lippmann never clearly defined that.

PramodPks1966: In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. - Walter Lippmann

SageDespatches: ...century, the general view is that the power elite makes the decisions and the less well informed or skilled general public, has to be led by the elite. The public are what Walter Lippmann labelled "the bewildered herd".

DavidCWillisUSA: For those interested in how "Reality" is constructed via Propaganda etc...Walter Lippmans seminal work Public Opinion (1921) well worth reading. "The way in which the world is IMAGINED determines at any particular moment what men will do." and in

RachelLarris: So while Walter Lippmann did push for "objectivity" to become a standard in reporting. It might be because print reporting was undergoing competition from the "new" mediums of broadcasting beginning in the 1920s .

711SMD: “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” - Walter Lippmann

AndrewKostrub: another pundit aiming for Walter Lippmann ends up David Brooks

_wisehour_: "Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible." Walter Lippmann

AllTheRisks: [2/9] 1180 of these youngsters received at least one 30μg dose before the data cutoff date, 13 March 2021, comprised of 1131 adolescents during the blinded study and 49 from the placebo group, who turned 16, were unblinded and chose to be treated under the FDA’s recent 16+ EUA.

DugsRus: Meet Walter Lippmann And Why Journalism Became Propaganda. American writer, reporter and political commentator. Media Gatekeepers.. From 100 years ago.... Some things never change..

BillKristol: The "realist" Walter Lippmann, in 1933: "One could hear in Hitler 'the authentic voice of a genuinely civilized people...To deny today that Germany can speak as a civilized power because uncivilized things are being done in Germany is in itself a deep form of intolerance.”

KatrinaNation: A Test of the News - by Charles Merz and Walter Lippmann— Need 21st century version of this seminal essay-/

MeowImageBot: It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

QuizzicalAvi: Is Israel the first of the Walter Lippmann democracies where the security state has had to show it's hand like this?

davidlj58: Walter Lippmann believed that "The American people were incapable of self-rule. For democracy to work, the machinery of the public mind needed to be understood and managed by an educated elite"

SilverL1n1ng: Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. - Walter Lippmann

morr_precious: You do not see things as we they are but as we are no wonder Walter Lippmann said “ we are all captives of the pictures in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. “

GordonTredgold: The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. - Walter Lippmann

charlesmcurry: "Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible" -- Walter Lippmann

sotmaopa: Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed ~Walter Lippmann

BarrySchachter: “There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.” Walter Lippmann (“Liberty and the News”)

DavidCranmerUn1: Katharine Wilhelmina Heine, daughter of Wilhelm Heine, a cousin of American Civil War Union Army general John Sedgwick. Ernst Hanfstaengl, nicknamed "Putzi" attended Harvard University and became acquainted with Walter Lippmann and John Reed. During World War I, Lippmann was

DavidCranmerUn1: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Walter Lippmann was an early and influential commentator on mass culture, notable not for criticizing or rejecting mass culture entirely but discussing how it could be worked with by a government licensed "propaganda machine" to keep

DavidCranmerUn1: democracy functioning. In his first book on the subject, Public Opinion (1922), Lippmann said that mass man functioned as a "bewildered herd" who must be governed by "a specialized class whose interests reach beyond the locality." The Walter Lippmann House at Harvard University,

janicesellis1: The first 4 chapters establish Walter Lippmann as the father of Real Advocacy Journalism™. The last 4 show how he carved out and practiced the premises and elements.

Justice78602373: “It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” ― Walter Lippmann Joyful Sushant

MarkThomasEdwa1: We have a cover!

AbundanceMinds3: Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. - Walter Lippmann

philosophytweet: "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." - Walter Lippmann

cudy_id: "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much" -- Walter Lippmann

mkgiu1: Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed ~Walter Lippmann

tcbeaton: "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." ~ Walter Lippmann

DissentientOne: I am severely tempted to use this picture of a dreamy Walter Lippmann, for example, but it's very blurry

ibinnayakam: "Humans command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors" - Walter Lippmann (Public Opinion)

CiteSeer: "Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings." - Walter Lippmann

RichardV004: No need to agree (share beliefs) with each other as long as we are able to productively cooperate. ❤ And Yes, it is possible! Walter Lippmann

Alonzo62: The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Walter Lippmann

iamhussain_glt: "The news and the truth are not the same things" Walter Lippmann

MotivAppBot: Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. [Walter Lippmann]

TakingoutTrash7: Ours is a problem in which deception has become organised and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people. - Walter Lippmann

JudsonCarroll1: "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." -WALTER LIPPMANN

Jonatha76493611: There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil- Walter Lippmann CNN, MSNBC and all their ilk should remember this... STOP THE INSANITY people. Wake up and see the truth.

HRConfes: "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much" -- Walter Lippmann

adriennelaf_ebx: I LOVE THAT PICKED WALTER LIPPMANN.

DavidCWillisUSA: "The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do." Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion 1924...and the people that control what you "imagine" to be real own your reality....This is the most important thing for people to know. I learned it in…

Rome_Colt45: Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people. - Walter Lippmann

KenAyu_RG: It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -Walter Lippmann RALPHGAIL ASAPaKENsiAYUMI

KittyZena4872: The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.,Walter Lippmann,power,

YoussifISHAKA15: The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.,Walter Lippmann,Stars, Heart, Belief ,

MotivAppBot: Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. [Walter Lippmann]

FinsVol: “A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.” - Walter Lippmann (Political Columnist)

MDRBrown: All that to end up with Walter Lippmann? Jeez

Captail152: Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.,Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion,words,

spawnofKahn: Back to the matter at hand, IR and Poli-Sci have their roots in the lived experience of folks like Walter Lippmann, a journalist/scholar/genius who was on the American negotiating team during the First World War.

Medinyoon: “Above all the other necessities of human nature, above the satisfaction of any other need. Above hunger, love, pleasure, fame, even life itself. What a man most needs is the conviction that he is contained within the discipline of an ordered existence.” - Walter lippmann

FForwardist: Some real soviet codenames: BOAR: Winston Churchill KAPITAN: President Roosevelt HELMSMAN: Earl Browder IMPERIALIST: Walter Lippmann

3eLarry: Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. - walter lippmann

tonny_ngui: A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient unprofitable or dangerous to do so.,Walter Lippmann,honour,

Jason_S_deSouza: Never forget that the Nazis were heavily inspired by the works of U.S. luminaries such as Edward Bernays and Walter Lippmann - which proved to be instructive in understanding how to craft propaganda and shape public opinion.

ThebestDay4you: "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." Walter Lippmann

0Newlife3: Thoughtful, especially the last few paragraphs for The Way Forward. Why Walter Lippmann wanted to demolish the ideas behind Cold War

nocoup0: Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed ~Walter Lippmann

LiamHealy16: DC’s reaction has me so sad man :(

GordonTredgold: The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. - Walter Lippmann

GeoffDoyle_: The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on - Walter Lippmann

NellPot97096100: Dear Mr. Gestwa, western media is not critical but PURE PROPAGANDA! Do your homework and read Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays. We will lose the weak democracy we had some years ago if we don´t fight NOW! Get up, stand up, don´t give up the fight!!

satscryptKMcG: Walter Lippmann's (1922) manufacturing consent, way before Herman & Chomsky's (1988), contend that because the world is too complex for any individual to comprehend, a strong society needs people and institutions specialised in collecting data and...

GrgasEng: “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” ⁃Walter Lippmann

MazenN93: "Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible" -- Walter Lippmann

PhilMilio: Humankind starts on the meaning of human life when they plant shade trees under which they know they will never sit. (1955) Walter Lippmann suggested community allegiance is why the young die in battle for their country & why old folks plant trees they'll never sit under.

ypaorls: Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed ~Walter Lippmann

SnabbyRE: "Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible" -- Walter Lippmann

janicesellis1: Walter Lippmann’s writings contain much wisdom and instruction that can be applied by practitioners and observers of public and political discourse. This book serves as a reminder of his writings.

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Univ_ComradesNA: This is more or less an extension of Walter Lippmann’s theory as he laid it out in “Public Opinion”

RrjohnR: Pleased to share a pre-print of my forthcoming OUP essay on American anti-monopoly thought from the Boston Tea Party to the progressive era. John Adams, William Leggett, George Henry Evans, Henry George, Louis Brandeis, and, wait for it…Walter Lippmann.

DavidCranmerUn1: around 150 academics, was directed by the presidential adviser Edward House and supervised directly by the philosopher Sidney Mezes. The Heads of Research were Walter Lippmann and his successor Isaiah Bowman. The group first worked out of the New York Public Library but later

The_Wub_: Walter Lippmann is one of those thinkers where reading him is a fascinating look into how bourgeois liberal technocrats derive the false consciousness they operate from but his actual conclusions about society are empirically untrue yet he asserts them as unbiased matters of fact

mkoinhi: Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed ~Walter Lippmann

MeowImageBot: Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. - Walter Lippmann

SillimanT: We shall advance when we have learned humility; when we have learned to seek truth, to reveal it and publish it; when we care more for that than for the privilege of arguing about ideas in a fog of uncertainty. ~Walter Lippmann, c.1917

NancyKellyMart1: Not necessarily a 'logical' reply: just a simplistic, political response. The Walter Lippmann syndrome of simple sloganism.

RTerriers: means of the propaganda model of communication. The title refers to consent of the governed, and derives from the phrase "the manufacture of consent" used by Walter Lippmann in Public Opinion

ThinkPplCulture: "Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible" -- Walter Lippmann

boobiyy1: Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed ~Walter Lippmann

HiteshEstate: "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much" -- Walter Lippmann

drjoesDIYhealth: “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” Walter Lippmann

MarkThomasEdwa1: "I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions." Walter Lippmann, 1913

PiratiIo: Walter Lippmann in his 1920 book Liberty and the News warned that when journalists “arrogate to themselves the right to determine by their own consciences what shall be reported and for what purpose, democracy is [...]

MK_Ultra_Spy: 11/The staff consisted of Arnold Toynbee, a future director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), Lords Norhcliffe, and the Americans, Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays.

SpartaJustice: GOVERNMENT CRIMES: They paid doctors and nurses to murder innocent patients. They faked Covid cases and deaths to instill fear in the population. They denied safe early treatments murdering millions of innocent people. They forced ineffective toxic Covid vaccines on the world.…

GordonTredgold: The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. - Walter Lippmann

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