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The Politics of Media and Manufacturing Consent
The phrase manufacturing consent was not mine. I borrowed it from Walter Lipman's, as you know, the leading public intellectual of the 20th century. Both Wilson and Bernice were very impressed with how what Lipman called engineering of consent could control the public shape opinion. They have to be fed in necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications said Reinhold Niebuhr.