Noam Chomsky on Walter Lippmann
Activist and scholar Noam Chomsky said in an interview: the term “manufacturing consent” is not mine, I took it from Walter Lippmann, the leading public intellectual and leading media figure of the twentieth century, who thought it was a great idea. He said we should manufacture consent, that’s the way democracies should work. There should be […]
Historian Howard Zinn, in Discovering John Reed
Historian Howard Zinn, in Discovering John Reed, contrasted the evolution of Reed and Lippmann during World War 1, where Reed moved left and Lippmann moved right: The big periodicals of New York pressed him to cover the European war for them, and he agreed to go for the Metropolitan. At the same time he wrote […]
“Walter Lippmann and Democracy” by Herbert Aptheker (1955)
Historian Herbert Aptheker, author of American Negro Slave Revolts, editor of the writings of, and literary executor of W.E.B. DuBois, and of the Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States and numerous other works on Black history, wrote a comprehensive analysis in 1955 . It was reprinted in Dr. Aptheker’s History and […]
“Lippmann and the News” by MICHAEL SCHUDSON
“Lippmann and the News” by MICHAEL SCHUDSON [from THE NATION, December 31, 2007] For Lippmann, veracity is not easy to attain, nor is its enemy in journalism primarily or necessarily a matter of government pressure or corporate ownership. The same year he published Liberty and the News, Lippmann, assisted by fellow New Republic editor Charles […]
“A Murder and Its Meaning” Elias Vlanton’s review of Kati Marton’s THE POLK CONSPIRACY
“A Murder and Its Meaning” Elias Vlanton’s review of Kati Marton’s THE POLK CONSPIRACY, a book on the role of mainstream journalists in supporting the Cold War as it was inaugurated after World War II. Vlanton says: Kati Marton has written a thrilling account of Polk’s murder and of the cover-up by the American press […]
Long Live Castro
Aug 1, 2015Walter Lippmann
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