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hunterpayneyesterday at 11:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

For reference, Walter Lippmann is the guy from the NYT who covered up the Holodomor in Ukraine (1930s) in the west as well as Stalin's gulags and purges. I wouldn't call him the voice of the proletariat in any way. He was the voice of the Stalinist in the west and the term tankie was invented for him and people like him.


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Paradigma11today at 9:00 AM

For veracity, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty was that guy.

CursedSilicontoday at 12:30 AM

That's a strange take. But okay

He also wrote the book "Public Opinion" in 1922 [1] which explained how the US mass media apparatus could be used to influence the common man.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)