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WRITERS > journalist, editor, author > Walter Lippmann
Where mass opinion...
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Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern.
Source: The Public Philosophy, ch. 1, sct. 4 (1955).
-- Walter Lippmann, (Sep 23 1889-1974), US journalist, editor, author; He won Pulitzers 1958, 1962, for his syndicated column, Today and Tomorrow.