Jay Rosen

Teacher of Journalism and Director of the Studio 20 Program at NYU

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@RoyPeterClark That is a great book and was a key part of my dissertation (1986). (from X)

Liberty and the News book cover

by Walter Lippmann·You?

In Liberty and the News Walter Lippmann offers us a stern warning about the importance of reliable news to the survival of a healthy democracy. He railed against bad journalism and drove home the point that the general public must be able to ascertain the truth or democracy is doomed. Walter Lippmann was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the father of modern journalism.