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Walter Lippmann: Chief Factors Limiting Access to Facts: 1) Artificial censorship 2) Limitations of social contact 3) Comparatively meager time in a day for paying attention to public affairs. 4) Distortion arising because events have to be compressed into very short messages 5) Difficulty of making a small vocabulary express a complicated world 6) Fear of facing those facts which would seem to threaten the established routine of men's lives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9459