Walter Lippmann Quote

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.


The Public Philosophy (1995)


When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical...

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical...

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical...

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical...