In his novel “1984,” George Orwell created a term “Newspeak,” a language that was imposed by Big Brother for the purpose of diminishing the range of thought. That perfectly describes what recently ...

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Canada’s corporate-controlled mainstream media exercise so much control over today’s media that journalism is similar to the language used to control the public in Orwell’s 1984. Newspeak is the ...

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." This passage from George Orwell's 1984 is one that every Chicago Bears fan should consider while digesting the latest propaganda being dispensed by ...

My high school sophomore English Lit teacher was both a real hippie and an inveterate optimist, believing as he did that we 16 and 17-year-old small town kids could read and comprehend the books he ...

In George Orwell's chilling novel "1984," Newspeak is a method of controlling the people's language in order to keep them under Big Brother's heavy hand. It is a devious, diabolical system using ...

When what you are saying is so obviously at odds with the plain truth, it is useful to choose your words carefully to obscure this fact. This was the strategy of the Ministry of Truth, the propaganda ...