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...turn of the century, sociologists and political philosophers, students of urbanization and the power of the press were brooding about the implications of mediated experience. The anonymous metropolis and the explosion of information threatened to swamp primary social contacts. Between man and his environment, Walter Lippmann noted in 1922, there had appeared a "pseudo environment," and human behavior had become nothing more than responses to the images and ideas filtered through the information machines...
...magazine that congressmen and editors have always liked to read. Liberals in search of an opinion could find out what to think in often long, detailed articles, that made important and sometimes boring reading. Its reputation has been established by the contributions of such notables as Walter Lippmann '10, George Santayana '86, George Bernard Shaw, and Bertrand Russell. Peretz describes his readership as "over-educated, over-politicized, and over-affluent...the opinion-making elite...
...sophomore year. In one of his more ignominious moments, Reed told his Jewish roommate, Carl Binger, that they could not live together, because it would hamper Reed's chances of gaining membership in the Hasty Pudding Institute. Reed preferred football games and social functions to participation in Walter Lippmann's newly formed Socialist Club...
...Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well as resolve impasses over tax and energy proposals. Although the dispute could arise again in 1977, the precedent toward easier cloture has now been set. Sentiment seems to be running against the defenders of the filibuster, including the late Walter Lippmann who once praised it as "a precious usage, invaluable to the preservation of freedom." On the ascendancy is the judgment expressed by Woodrow Wilson, who as President argued that the filibuster allowed "a little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own," to make the Senate "the only legislative body...
...question remains: Is checkbook journalism justifiable? CBS Public Affairs Vice President Robert Chandler defends payment for material that is a "memoir" rather than "hard news." Since the '50s, he points out, CBS has paid former Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson, Authors Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Walter Lippmann and convicted Watergate Conspirator G. Gordon Liddy to "reminisce" about the past. Argues Chandler, CBS is "paying for memoirs that are the electronic equivalent of a long magazine piece-or a marathon Play boy interview...