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Walter Lippmann Quotes: The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.
         

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.


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It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?



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