| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxxi, 236 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
PublicAffairs reports |
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PublicAffairs reports.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-229). |
| Contents |
Editor's note / Andras Szanto -- Introduction: Follies of orthodoxy / Orville Schell -- Orwell then and now / David Rieff -- The limits of language / Nicholas Lemann -- Words in a tome of war : on rhetoric, truth, and power / Mark Danner -- An egregious collocation of vocables / Patricia J. Williams -- Freedom, liberty, and rights : three cautionary tales / Aryeh Neier -- Sloppiness and the English language / Francine Prose -- What Orwell didn't know about the brain, the mind, and language / George Lakoff -- The new frontier : the instruments of emotion / Drew Westen -- Stellar spin / Frances FitzGerald -- Bad knowledge / Alice O'Connor -- Black and white, or gray : a Polish conundrum / Konstanty Gebert -- After the Falwellians / Susan Harding -- Welcome to the infotainment freak show / Martin Kaplan -- Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night will stay the couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds : but what about big media? / Victor Navasky -- Reporters and rhetoric / Geoffrey Cowan -- Lessons from the war zone / Farnaz Fassihi -- Our own thought police / Michael Massing -- What I didn't know : open society reconsidered / George Soros -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: Propaganda. Manipulation. Spin. Control. It has ever been thus-or has it? On the eve of the 60th anniversary of George Orwell's classic essay on propaganda (Politics and the English Language), writers have been invited to explore what Orwell didn't-or couldn't-know. Their responses, framed in pithy, focused essays, range far and wide: from the effect of television and computing, to the vast expansion of knowledge about how our brains respond to symbolic messages, to the merger of journalism and entertainment, to lessons learned during and after a half-century of totalitarianism. Together, they paint a portrait of a political culture in which propaganda and mind control are alive and well (albeit in forms and places that would have surprised Orwell). The pieces in this anthology sound alarm bells about the manipulation and misinformation in today's politics, and offer guideposts for a journalism attuned to Orwellian tendencies in the 21st century. |
| Subject |
Propaganda -- United States.
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Mass media and propaganda -- United States.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Politics and the English language.
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| Added Author |
Szanto, Andras.
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| ISBN |
9781586485603 (pbk.) |
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1586485601 (pbk.) |
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