+ Springf’d Republican p8 F 10 ’20 450w
LIPPMANN, WALTER. Liberty and the news. *$1 (7c) Harcourt 323
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Two essays, on What modern liberty means and Liberty and the news, are here reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, prefaced by a brief introductory essay on Journalism and the higher law. In the latter the author says, “Everywhere today men are conscious that somehow they must deal with questions more intricate than any that church or school had prepared them to understand. Increasingly they know that they cannot understand them if the facts are not quickly and steadily available. Increasingly they are baffled because the facts are not available; and they are wondering whether government by consent can survive in a time when the manufacture of consent is an unregulated private enterprise. For in an exact sense the present crisis of western democracy is a crisis in journalism.” The aim of the two main essays is “to describe the character of the problem, and to indicate headings under which it may be found useful to look for remedies.”
Booklist 16:263 My ’20
“Mr Lippmann’s contribution is neither a panegyric nor a tirade. He has approached a perplexing problem in dispassionate, sane and judicial fashion and with a beneficent purpose.” H: L. West
+ Bookm 52:116 O ’20 950w Ind 102:370 Je 12 ’20 160w Int J Ethics 31:115 O ’20 90w
Reviewed by H. J. Laski
Nation 110:594 My 1 ’20 480w