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As a part of my own personal effort to attempt to make early 20th century progressivism easier to consume, perhaps study, choose whatever term you prefer......

Stella is very ingenious to direct all conservatives to look into this book. She opens the article with it.

My contribution is that I recorded the entirety of the book, and put it out for free on the internet to be consumed and studied. It is not a waste of time for conservatives to start to understand these people.

Public Opinion - free audio(mp3)

Free Speech Is the Only Antidote to Mass Delusion

Yes - but actually, it is insufficient in the age of mass communications. We need, we must have, ~~a free press~~ free and independent presses.
In fact, SCOTUS is wrong in calling money “speech.” Talk is cheap - it is printing presses, ink, and paper which cost money. And don’t question the connection between freedom of the literal printing press of the founding era and freedom of the Internet and cable - yes, and over-the-airwaves broadcast - of today.
Article 1 Section 8.
The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .
implies that the framers anticipated that printing press would be improved upon.

Amendment 9 -
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
This directly rebuts the notion that the First Amendment is a ceiling over our liberties - it is intended only as floor beneath them. The framers did provide a means of adjusting the unregulated advance of technology on the press, but it would be really hard to get an amendment to the First Amendment ratified.
The reason we are troubled by “the media” is simple; Adam Smith condemned the source of the problem three generations before it arose:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Wire service journalism originated in 1848 with the founding of the New York Associated Press - soon renamed simply, “the Associated Press.” The members of the AP - any and all wire services are the same - are in a continual virtual meeting of “people of the same trade.” The AP newswire has been going for well over a century and a half, and the inevitable “conspiracy against the public” arose before it was a half a century old.
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
That motive operates on all journalists; it is their reason for existence. Thus they make the absurd claim of their own objectivity based on their mutual-admiration-society AP membership.
The effect is that journalists are free to promote the idea which is the exact opposite of Theodore Roosevelt’s famous dictum, “It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . .” And what is the most pithy expression of the opposite of that dictum? Elizabeth Warren announced it, and Obama and Hillary! echo it:

You didn’t build that.
Which is obviously cynicism - and socialist dogma.