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Liberty and the News
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2020
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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.
Table of Contents
Cover
Half-Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Preface
pp. i-v
Contents
pp. vi
The Twin Crises of Democracy and Journalism
pp. vii-xii
1. Journalism and the Higher Law
pp. 1-6
2. What Modern Liberty Means
pp. 7-22
3. Liberty and the News
pp. 23-33
Back Cover
| ISBN | 9781951399030 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9781951399023 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 1227264770 |
| Pages | 47 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2020-12-22 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC |
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