Walter Lippmann and Public Opinion

AUG 02 2019

An examination of Lippmann's 1922 book, written after he had watched the First World War's press offices operate from inside. His claim was that people act on a simplified picture in their heads rather than on the world itself, and that this pseudo-environment can be shaped - a diagnosis that became a manual for the profession he was warning about. The essay also covers his doubts about whether mass democracy could survive it.