02621cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000330012624500250015926400510018430000470023533600260028233700260030833800360033450000490037050000310041950500900045050800150054052014870055553400680204265300250211085600740213585600430220999900190225277035UtSlPG20260610134802.0mcr n260607r20251920utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a20004814  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPN1 aLippmann, Walter,d1889-197410aLiberty and the news 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aReprinted in part from the Atlantic monthly.  aRelease date is 2025-10-120 aJournalism and the higher laws -- What modern liberty means -- -Liberty and the news.  aSean/IB@DP  a"Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann" is a collection of political essays written in the early 20th century. It is a non-fiction tract that examines how freedom, public opinion, and journalism intersect, with a concise focus on the crisis of news reliability and its consequences for democratic self-government.  The book argues that democracy cannot function without a steady flow of truthful, relevant, and intelligible news. It critiques the press for subordinating truth to patriotic edification, shows how classical defenses of free speech (from Milton and Mill to Russell) collapse when facts are missing, and explains how complexity, distance, and propaganda create a pseudo-environment that misleads the public and empowers demagogues. The author shifts the liberty debate from policing opinions to protecting the sources, organization, and comprehension of information. He proposes practical reforms: transparent sourcing and documentation, stronger accountability for falsehoods, professional training for reporters in evidence and language, and independent institutes to record and analyze government and public affairs. He urges universities to support this work and calls for an endowed, editorially neutral news service to compete with biased structures. The core message is that genuine liberty is secured by institutions that make facts accessible and trustworthy, so public opinion can be both free and responsible. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920  aFreedom of the press4 uhttps://archive.org/details/libertyandnews01lippgoog/page/n7/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77035  c117759d117759