Quotes About Lippmann

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society…. A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.

This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

And so began a vicious economic spiral. "It's a marvel, looking back on it now," Lippmann would later write ruefully, "that we could ever have so completely thought that a boom under such treacherous conditions was permanent."126

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Lippmann had rented a private room in some restaurant and invited Eisman and his partners to what they assumed was something other than a free meal. "Even when he had an honest agenda, there was always something underneath the honest agenda," said Vinny.

Lippmann entendía que la «persuasión» iba a ser una modalidad profesional relevante en los años siguientes, como «un arte sutil y un órgano regular del gobierno popular». Y añadió algo que en general se subestimó: «Ninguno de nosotros alcanza a comprender las consecuencias, pero no es una profecía muy arriesgada decir que saber cómo conseguir la sumisión de la gente guiará todas las premisas políticas».

What Lippmann took from the war—as he explained in his 1922 classic Public Opinion—was the gap between the true complexity of the world and the narratives the public uses to understand it—the rough "stereotypes" (a word he coined in his book). When it came to the war, he believed that the "consent" of the governed had been, in his phrase, "manufactured.

Our interest in sex is no longer to annihilate it, but to educate it, to find civilized opportunities for its expression.