"The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly 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 and eruptions. It is only when they work by the steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them reveals a situation intelligible enough for popular decision."
~Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) U. S. Journalist
2010 Tea Party Protest, Boston, MA ©Michael Seamans
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