Liberty and the News
By Walter Lippmann
- Release Date: 2012-09-19
- Genre: U.S. History
Description
Written in the aftermath of World War I, this essay by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist exposes the threat to democracy posed by media bias. Nearly a century later, it remains relevant in its denunciation of wartime misinformation and propaganda and its demand for spin-free interpretations of facts and ideas.