...press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that restlessly moves about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents,...

...them into relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act." The press "is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...bringing one episode and then another out of darkness inio vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by...

...news signalizes an event and is not a synonym for truth, that in short, and at best, the newspaper is "like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...episode and then another out of darkness into vision". The press, he points out, cannot present a synthesis but only a fragmentary analysis, cannot reveal...

...in order to form a reliable picture of the world. The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents...

...Opinion (1922), the only one of his books to approach the quality of Drift and Mastery, the press is "like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents,...

...light the hidden facts."3 The press, Lippmann wrote, plays at best a limited role, functioning like a searchlight that moves "restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of the darkness into vision."4 His biographer, Ronald Steel, has pointed out what was equally important...

...definitions of health problems. Media advocates use the media to set the health policy agenda. Agenda Setting Mass media are like the beam of a searchlight that...another out of darkness into vision. —Walter Lippmann (1922/1965) This classic image is as relevant today as it was when first put forth in 1922. The image...

...and argue for a revival of experimentation in the study of political communication. [The press] is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...about, bringing one episode and then another out of the darkness into vision. W. Lippmann (1922) Four decades ago, spurred by the cancer of fascism abroad...

...of how news is created and reported and how the agenda-setting process works. Walter Lippmann noted, "Mass media are like the beam of a searchlight that...episode and then another out of darkness into vision" (1965[1922], p. 229). The key to media advocacy is to fix the searchlight on public policy issues,...

...measurement. Chapter 3 What Gets Covered and Where hen Walter Lippmann wrote in 1922 that the press was "like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...episode and then another out of darkness into vision," his description aptly fit the way television would someday cover foreign news.1 Today journalists speed...