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‘Walter Lippmann did recognise the increasing capacity of people to select their own facts, a trend which faces us with a large question. As Arnold-Forster puts it: “If lying journalism defined the public sphere, was democracy really free?”’
Andrew O’Hagan:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan · Fatal Realism: Walter Lippmann’s Warning
People reading newspapers, Lippmann observed, were not offended by stories of unfairness and corruption, they were...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
‘Walter Lippmann did recognise the increasing capacity of people to select their own facts, a trend which faces us with a large question. As Arnold-Forster puts it: “If lying journalism defined the public sphere, was democracy really free?”’
Andrew O’Hagan:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...