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The hosts praised Lippmann's analysis of democracy, noting its lasting relevance and that the book was first published in 1922.

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Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion.

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The hosts praised Lippmann's analysis of democracy, noting its lasting relevance and that the book was first published in 1922.

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Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion.

And I think that was published in 1922.

His diagnosis really holds up, so anyone thinking through these problems would do well to read Lippmann.

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The book was noted as a 1922 publication whose insights into democracy and the postindustrial world remain relevant, with the host urging listeners to read it.

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The second book would be Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion, and I think that was published in 1922. I really think Lippmann, despite his eventual turn against democracy, he sort of threw in the towel. I do think he understood the problems of democracy, especially in the postindustrial world.

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Behind the Bastards

This book by Walter Lippmann was written years before Bernays's 'Crystallizing Public Opinion', and was a vehement critique of propaganda and the manufacture of consent. Bernays used the book as a basis and reversed the argument to create a 'how-to' guide.

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what bernays represents as a friendly reading of public opinion in his own quickly crafted sequel to lippmann's book Crystallizing public opinion is actually a calculated reversal of lippmann's argume...

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This book by Walter Lippmann was written years before Bernays's 'Crystallizing Public Opinion', and was a vehement critique of propaganda and the manufacture of consent. Bernays used the book as a basis and reversed the argument to create a 'how-to' guide.

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what bernays represents as a friendly reading of public opinion in his own quickly crafted sequel to lippmann's book Crystallizing public opinion is actually a calculated reversal of lippmann's argument

lippmann was a vehement critic of propaganda Who condemned the manufacture of consent by public relations when that field was still in its infancy

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Philosophize This!

Lippman's book, "Public Opinion", criticizes democracy by arguing that the average citizen is not equipped to make informed political decisions due to the complexities of the modern world. He believes that public opinion is shaped by stereotypes and pseudo-environments, which are simplified models of reality constructed by individuals to cope with overwhelming information.

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The world is, as Lippman says, quote, too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance. We are not equipped to deal with so much subtlety, so much variety, and so many permutations and c...

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Lippman's book, "Public Opinion", criticizes democracy by arguing that the average citizen is not equipped to make informed political decisions due to the complexities of the modern world. He believes that public opinion is shaped by stereotypes and pseudo-environments, which are simplified models of reality constructed by individuals to cope with overwhelming information.

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The world is, as Lippman says, quote, too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance. We are not equipped to deal with so much subtlety, so much variety, and so many permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in that environment, we have to reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage it. End quote.

crystallize into what we call public opinion. End quote.

for a dollar you may not even get an armful of candy but for a dollar or less people expect reality slash representations of truth to fall into their laps, end quote.

every authoritarian scheme assumes that its value may be assessed by some prior principle if not of family and birth or race and color or possession of material wealth then by the position and rank the person occupies in the existing social scheme. The democratic faith and equality is the faith that each individual shall have the chance and opportunity to contribute whatever he is capable of contributing and that the value of his contribution be decided by its place and function in the organized total of similar contributions not on the basis of prior status of any kind whatever. End quote.