Talk:Walter Lippmann

"Responsible men" vs "ignorant and meddlesome outsiders"
Noam Chomsky has repeatedly quoted Walter Lippmann on making the distinction between an "intelligent minority" of "Responsible men" and the rest of us, who are "ignorant and meddlesome outsiders," but Google can't find me a source other than Chomsky himself.

Is there an academic out there, with access to more traditional sources, who could cite the actual passage this comes from and add it to the article? 184.57.129.13 (talk) 20:53, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi. I'm no academic but I found the source of a quote from Lippmann in Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Valerie, et al. "Farewell to the ‘bewildered herd’: Paulo Freire’s revolutionary dialogical communication in the age of corporate globalization." Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies 4.2 (2006): 30. There's a free PDF in Google Scholar. The authors cite Lippmann's book The Phantom Public from 1925. All good except you can read the book free in Google Books, and I don't find this precise quote. Only a sentence here and there.

"The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and roar of a bewildered herd. Only the insider can make decisions, not because he is inherently a better man but because he is so placed that he can understand and can act. The outsider is necessarily ignorant, usually irrelevant, and often meddlesome." Hope this helps. -SusanLesch (talk) 23:50, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

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Lippman, the phantom public, chapter xiv society in its place

'the public must be put in its place,s o that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd;

https://books.google.ca/books?id=fnk-a3IX5ZgC&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq=chapter+xiv+lippman+society+in+its+place&source=bl&ots=acCncowATb&sig=d77Vb0fzq9_LPkUUd4IkBFwDG7A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-wanHyJ7NAhVI12MKHQ7yAVoQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=chapter%20xiv%20lippman%20society%20in%20its%20place&f=false