Liberty and the News /

Lippmann, Walter, 1889-

Liberty and the News / Walter Lippmann, Sue Curry Jansen. - Centenary edition. - 1 online resource (47 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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"Liberty and the News was published a century ago, the young Walter Lippmann's fifth book. The slim volume merits a fresh read in our post-truth moment. "In an exact, sense," Lippmann writes, "the present crisis of western democracy is a crisis in journalism." For Lippmann, liberty constitutes a method, not a series of prohibitions and permissions. The book's aim is to identify and examine potential reforms to boost the reliability of news-a project as relevant today as it is unfinished. Liberty and the News is republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Sue Curry Jansen"--

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