Examples Of Going Back To Walter Liptmann

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Going back to Walter Lippmann (1922) who wrote two books in which he used two examples to illustrate how indirectly citizens know the environment in which they live, acknowledging how ‘the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance,’ this assertion illustrate that media work is to facilitate and simplifies what is hard to understand by people in a given society, as Lippmann (1922:30) state that citizens can use media to learn about their unseen life space, they inherently cannot process mediated information fully (Lippmann, 1922). As a result, citizens are forced to rely on what they can to create for themselves trustworthy pictures of the world beyond their reach. Naturally, the mass media

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