NP - Orwell and John Oliver

[Atticus Pinecone]

Agreed!

He'd probably call Time Warner something clever like The Ministry of Real Truth.

> On Nov 13, 2017, at 4:38 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Howdy folks,
> 
> The most recent episode of John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" confirms my suspicion that Orwell would have liked it.
> 
> Oliver focuses on what he calls the 3 main tactics of Trump and his fellow travllers: Delegitimizing the Media, Whataboutism, and "Trolling". Think of them as another turn toward Newspeak. Oliver mentions that Whataboutism (or the Tu Quoque argument) was a common Soviet strategy during the COld War and that its use is spreading. It all constitutes a pernicious attempt to obfuscate issues and obviate discussion or accountability.
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> The Ministry of Truth is built phrase by phrase.
> 
> Oh, one of the best parts is at the beginning in which a recent Trump speech is compared to a somewhat randomly produced cell phone text - bizarrely similar.
>  
> Shanti
> mc otis
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> 
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