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"If I lie in a lawsuit involving the fate of my
neighbor's cow, I can go to jail. But if I lie
to a million readers in a matter involving
war and peace, I can lie my head off, and,
if I choose the right series of lies, be entirely
irresponsible. Nobody will punish me if I lie
about Japan, for example. I can announce
that every Japanese valet is a reservist, and
every Japanese art store a mobilization
center. I am immune. And if there should be
hostilities with Japan, the more I lied the more
popular I should be. If I asserted that the
Japanese secretly drank the blood of children,
that Japanese women were unchaste, that
the Japanese were really not a branch of the
human race after all, I guarantee that most
of the newspapers would print it eagerly, and
that I could get a hearing in churches
all over the country."; -excerpted from Walter Lippman's
"Liberty and the News" circa 1920. Anything in there ringing
any bells, Trump-cult kids?
