Quote by: Walter Lippmann

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.


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Author Bio


  • NameWalter Lippmann
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornSeptember 23, 1889
  • DiedDecember 14, 1974
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer
  • AwardsPeabody Award