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It took nearly a decade, a task complicated, he said, by Mr. Lippmann’s reluctance to reveal “personal” aspects of his life.

For Progressive intellectuals like Walter Lippmann, it meant security from economic want.

A century ago, journalist Walter Lippmann wrote that the press, rather than bringing order to political chaos, tends to "intensify" it.

“And my advice to him,” Lippmann said, “was get the tools you need or get out.”

I think a lot about what Walter Lippmann wrote in Public Opinion almost 100 years ago, that one of the most powerful functions media have is creating narratives out of facts.