| | [[File:Lippman-Time.jpg|thumb|250px|''Time'' magazine Mar. 30, 1931 [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,741342,00.html read the cover story]]] | | [[File:Lippman-Time.jpg|thumb|250px|''Time'' magazine Mar. 30, 1931 [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,741342,00.html read the cover story]]] |
| − | He has also been highly praised with titles ranging anywhere from "most influential" journalist<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blumenthal|first1=Sydney |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/walter_lippmann_and_american_journalism_today |title=Walter Lippmann and American journalism today |date=31 October 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-02-22/business/9802220064_1_peter-drucker-jack-beatty-books |title=Drucker Gives Lippmann Run As Most Influential Journalist |work=Chicago Tribune |date=1998 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/34278/harry-c-mcpherson-jr/walter-lippmann-and-the-american-century |title=Walter Lippmann and the American Century |date=1980 }}</ref> of the 20th century, to Father of Modern Journalism.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pariser|first1=Eli|title=The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think|date=2011|publisher=Penguin|location=New York|isbn=0143121235}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Snow|first1=Nancy|title=Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9/11|date=2003|publisher=Seven Stories|location=Canada|isbn=1583225579|pages=30–31}}</ref> James W. Carey, an influential teacher of journalists,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/carey_memoriam2.htm |title=In Memoriam, James W. Carey |date=2006 }}</ref> considered Walter Lippmann's book ''Public Opinion'' as "the founding book of modern journalism" and also "the founding book in American media studies".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Schudson |first=Michael |authorlink=Michael Schudson |date=2008 |title=The "Lippmann-Dewey Debate" and the Invention of Walter Lippmann as an Anti-Democrat 1985-1996 |journal=International Journal of Communication |volume=2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Carey |first=James W. |authorlink=James W. Carey |date=March 1987 |title=The Press and the Public Discourse |journal=The Center Magazine |volume=20 }}</ref> | + | He has also been highly praised with titles ranging anywhere from "most influential" journalist<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blumenthal|first1=Sydney |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/walter_lippmann_and_american_journalism_today |title=Walter Lippmann and American journalism today |date=31 October 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-02-22/business/9802220064_1_peter-drucker-jack-beatty-books |title=Drucker Gives Lippmann Run As Most Influential Journalist |work=Chicago Tribune |date=1998 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/34278/harry-c-mcpherson-jr/walter-lippmann-and-the-american-century |title=Walter Lippmann and the American Century |date=1980 }}</ref> of the 20th century, to Father of Modern Journalism.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pariser|first1=Eli|title=The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think|date=2011|publisher=Penguin|location=New York|isbn=0143121235}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Snow|first1=Nancy|title=Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9/11|date=2003|publisher=Seven Stories|location=Canada|isbn=1583225579|pages=30–31}}</ref> James W. Carey, an influential teacher of journalists,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/carey_memoriam2.htm |title=In Memoriam, James W. Carey |date=2006 }}</ref> considered Walter Lippmann's book ''Public Opinion'' as "the founding book of modern journalism" and also "the founding book in American media studies".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Schudson |first=Michael |authorlink=Michael Schudson |date=2008 |title=The "Lippmann-Dewey Debate" and the Invention of Walter Lippmann as an Anti-Democrat 1985-1996 |journal=International Journal of Communication |volume=2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Carey |first=James W. |authorlink=James W. Carey |date=March 1987 |title=The Press and the Public Discourse |journal=The Center Magazine |volume=20 }}</ref> Largely because of this, he also was an early proponent of fake news in his book ''Public Opinion''. In particular, he indicated that the press is supposed to utilize fake news to spin a narrative and thus manufacture public consent, claiming that news and truth are not the same thing, that it requires no real training to deal with the small pool, and that everything else is in the journalist's own discretion, which includes even promoting stereotypes.<ref>http://progressingamerica.blogspot.com/2012/02/journalism-and-manufacturing-of-consent.html</ref><ref>http://progressingamerica.blogspot.com/2013/03/walter-lippmann-explains-how.html</ref><ref>http://progressingamerica.blogspot.com/2017/01/who-is-founding-father-of-fake-news.html</ref> |