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Russia, Trump and Manafort: A Test of the News


Rachel Bauman
Politics, Security, Society, Russia, Ukraine, United States

The media doesn’t mind being an echo chamber.

In 1920 Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz wrote a forty-two-page supplement for the New Republic magazine called, “A Test of the News.” They scrutinized Western media coverage of the Bolshevik revolution and aftermath. They noted that various newspapers had concluded over ninety times that the Bolshevik regime was going to collapse. Their conclusion was damning: “The news about Russia is a case of seeing not what was, but what men wished to see. The chief censor and the chief propagandist were hope and fear in …read more

Source: The National Interest

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