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Liberty and the News /

"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 Lippm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lippmann, Walter, 1889- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bethlehem : mediastudies.press, 2020.
Edición:Centenary edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (47 pages).
ISBN:9781951399030
Acceso:Open Access