.The Public Jury
“In public affairs ... the jury is everybody who creates public sentiment—chattering gossips, unscrupulous liars, congenital liars, feeble-minded people, prostitute minds, corrupting agents. To this jury any testimony is submitted, is submitted in any form, by any anonymous person, with no test of reliability, no test of credibility, and no test of perjury.”
—Walter Lippmann, (1889-1974), newsman and author,
in Liberty and the News (1920)
(Thanks to alert WORDster Philip Meyer)
in Liberty and the News (1920)
(Thanks to alert WORDster Philip Meyer)
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In about 1969 or 1970 Walter Lippmann lost his column. I think the syndicator thought he was getting old.
ReplyDeleteSo one day at The Daily Journal in Caracas where I was working, a letter from Lippmann shows up almost begging us to publish his column that he
was self-syndicating.
He died a few years later.
I thought that was one of the sadder things I have seen in journalism.
Did you know he did a content analysis of news about Russia and the Soviets that was published in the New Republic? A dynamite piece of work worthy of a doc anywhere and probably better than most.
Jay