'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell

Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell by Nelson69 on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:24PM (#20159669)

I was just going to say that "Newspeak" in 1984 basically seems like exactly what is going on with "fake news."

On the surface, it just seems absurd and fascinating in a certain way that we can have video footage of the president saying one then and then he can just claim it's "fake news" and a sizable chunk of the populous seems to be cool with it.

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Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell by maxxxxx on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:43PM (#20159788)

Or the stock market keeps going up steadily over the last 10 years and one half thinks it was a complete disaster until 2017 and then glorious and the other half thinks everything went to hell in 2017. Same for the development of employment rate and other indicators.

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