Walter Lippmann, Beyond Stereotypes

Walter Lippmann, Beyond Stereotypes

Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual BiographyBy Tom Arnold-ForsterPrinceton, 353 pages, $35There is a genre of popular media history that traces the rise of the propaganda-saturated reality we now inhabit to the influence of particular individuals who had (or claimed to have) novel insights into major shifts in communication technology. Perhaps the most influential practitioner of this genre is the documentarian Adam Curtis, whose Century of the Se…