When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to gre…

Walter Lippmann
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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. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1955). Essays in the Public Philosophy, p.25, Transaction Publishers
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