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100 1 _aLippmann, Walter,
_d1889-1974
245 1 0 _aLiberty and the news
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aReprinted in part from the Atlantic monthly.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-12
505 0 _aJournalism and the higher laws -- What modern liberty means -- -Liberty and the news.
508 _aSean/IB@DP
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920
653 _aFreedom of the press
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/libertyandnews01lippgoog/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77035
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