“In our ‘news’ today we can see the tattler, the party pamphlet, the recondite journal of opinion, the yellow rag, the journal of commerce, the sob sister, the literary journal, and the progressive muckraker.”
“Fears of mass manipulation by new media are as old as mass media themselves. Almost every expansion of media or new media technology provoked paranoia about the contagious emotions of ‘the masses.'”
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Tworek, Heidi. "Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the new old fear of manipulating the masses." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 15 May. 2017. Web. 18 Mar. 2025.
APA
Tworek, H. (2017, May. 15). Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the new old fear of manipulating the masses. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 18, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/cambridge-analytica-trump-and-the-new-old-fear-of-manipulating-the-masses/
Chicago
Tworek, Heidi. "Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the new old fear of manipulating the masses." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 15, 2017. Accessed March 18, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/cambridge-analytica-trump-and-the-new-old-fear-of-manipulating-the-masses/.
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