General Books publication date 2009 Original publication date 1922 Original Publisher Macmillan Subjects Public opinion Social psychology United States Political Science General Political Science Political Ideologies Democracy Political Science International Relations General Psychology Social Psychology Social Science Sociology General Social Science Media Studies Notes This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million Books com where you can select from more than a million books for free Excerpt CHAPTER III CONTACT AND OPPORTUNITY While censorship and privacy intercept much information at its source a very much larger body of fact never reaches the whole public at all or only very slowly For there are very distinct limits upon the circulation of ideas A rough estimate of the effort it takes to reach everybody can be had by considering the Government s propaganda during the war Remembering that the war had run over two years and a half before America entered it that millions upon millions of printed pages had been circulated and untold speeches had been delivered let us turn to Mr Creel s account of his fight for the minds of men for the conquest of their convictions in order that the gospel of Americanism might be carried to every corner of the globe 1 Mr Creel had to assemble machinery which included a Division of News that issued he tells us more than six thousand releases had to enlist seventy five thousand Four Minute Men who delivered at least seven hundred and fifty five thousand one hundred and ninety speeches to an aggregate of over three hundred million people Boy scouts deliveredannotated copies of President Wilson s addresses to the householders of America Fortnightly periodicals were sent to six hundred thousand teachers Two hund
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Richard Nusser | 2009/06/25
Anyone who seriously considers a career in today s journalism needs to become familiar with how Walter Lippmann approached that once hallowed calling It s not enough to be the first on the scene with a story no matter how important that story may be What s important is to have an informed opinion on what caused the event to happen and to be able to speculate with some authoritative references on how it will affect the future course of events What made Walter Lippmann s thoughts opinion and obser...
Alex M | 2008/11/23
Lippman is sadly under appreciated these days I hadn t even heard his name until the past year when while working on my dissertation I came across this book Written in lucid clear prose yet dealing with incredibly complex theoretical and philosophical issues Public Opinion argues that not only is there not really an agreed upon Public Opinion but that people rarely even understand what they think they know let alone what they can agree upon with other people Lippman persuasively demonstrates tha...
A B Mamo | 2008/11/02
Lippmann is great but the BN Publishing edition of this book is beyond terrible Misplaced or simply missing punctuation misspelled words no italics or boldface where they are needed random line breaks in the middle of sentences no indented paragraphs no margins on the pages haphazard footnotes you get the idea The content is worth four or five stars for all the reasons that other reviewers have mentioned but this printing is simply unreadable
Vincent | 2008/10/18
No information of the publisher is available Therefore it cannot be quoted or be of any academic use
Charles Seife | 2008/04/19
Cheaply produced and bound and the typesetting is shockingly poor There are no indents after paragraph breaks italics that were in the original are missing in this shoddy edition I have to purchase yet another copy because this fly by night publisher can t be bothered to typeset an out of copyright text properly
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