individuals
also acting in the name of groups, are
Public Opinion with capital letters.'
These definitions, from Public Opinion (Harcourt, 1922, cloth; Free Press, 1965, paper) are as precise as any we are likely to get. Writing long before the advent of TV news, Lippmann emphasizes the barriers to informed opinion, notably the "comparatively meager time avail- able [to citizens] in each day for pay- ing attention to public affairs' and "the distortion arising because events have to...