“…to make lies sound truthful…”

Book review:

What Orwell Didn’t Know:

Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics

Andras Szanto, ed.

New York: Public Affairs, 2007.

236 pages.

This collection by Andras Szanto was published before the Obama presidency and what followed.

Essays by Martin Kaplan, Victor Navasky, and Geoffrey Cowan, in particular, illuminate these insightful, topical revelations about media failure to communicate truths.

George Orwell’s well-known essay, “Politics and the English Language,” is still useful and challenging, almost 75 years after he wrote it.

An excerpt from What Orwell Didn’t Know:

“…the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language…Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind…”

It is a terrifying reality that this statement sounds like it was written yesterday.

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Book review: The Bartender’s Tale

Ivan Doig’s story, I mostly loved it…

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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,

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