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According to [http://www.lewrockwell.com/bender/bender15.html Stephen Bender]]:
:Lippmann was an insider's insider. A prominent Harvard graduate, he went from advocating socialism to serving on the [[Creel Committee|Creel Commission]] and later advising President Wilson on his famous 14 Points at the Versailles conference. Later, he would write the most widely read column in the country for the New York Herald Tribune and thereafter for the Washington Post until his death in 1974.
It was his experience as a propagandist which convinced him of the possibility and the necessity to use propaganda and PR to manage popular opinion. His most remembered contribution was to coin the phrase [[Manufacture of consent]] - a phenomenon of which he approved.