Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1247
AUTHOR:
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
QUOTATION:
For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.
ATTRIBUTION:
WALTER LIPPMANN, Liberty and the News, p. 47 (1920).
