"We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists." - Walter Lippmann #FridayMotivation #QuoteOfTheDay #ContinuousImprovement #Coaching #LyonStrategic #WalterLippmann
#MustRead “the crisis of democracy is a crisis of journalism”— #WalterLippmann -More—“Distance btwn the world outside and the pictures in our head gives vast power to those who manage information flows. #Media #Journalism #PressFreedom #MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking #FirstAmendment #Democracy
September 23 is the birthday of #American commentator #WalterLippmann who we #quote and back with a picture of the side of a fjord near #AlesundNorway. If this #quotograph speaks to you, please repost it.
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I'm looking forward to reading this book over the summer! Congratulations to Tom Arnold-Forster, a Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, for bringing this amazing intellectual biography to print. #ushistory #walterlippmann #biography
Your brain loves shortcuts.
🧠 Stereotypes
🔁 Repetition
🤯 Illusory truths
And that’s how public opinion becomes a lie we believe.
#CognitiveBias #WalterLippmann
Walter Lippmann warned: “We do not see the world as it is. We see it as we are.”
🔍 We act on illusions, not reality.
📊 My new infographic breaks it down:
🧠 Pseudo-environments
🗳️ Misguided democracy
📡 Media distortion
#PublicOpinion #WalterLippmann #criticalthinking
"What matters is not the utterance of opinions. What matters is the confrontation of opinions in debate." #WalterLippmann @theatlantic.com
"When men are brought face to face w/ their opponents, forced to listen & learn & mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men." #WalterLippmann #IndispensableOpposition
"Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read, and the speeches they hear." - #WalterLippmann.
Diese Idee ist bald 100 Jahre alt und der Ideengeber hat sich ganz schnell von den Fundi-Liberalos verabschiedet als er verstand, dass er falsch verstanden wurde. Damals wurde auch der Begriff Neoliberalismus kreiert. #WalterLippmann
