Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"This government, the Party, controls them via the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), where Winston Smith, the protagonist, works; he is a member of the Outer Party. His job in Minitrue is the continual rewriting and altering of history so that the government is always right and correct: destroying evidence, amending newspaper articles, deleting the existence of people identified as unpersons." from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four> Fond regards, George george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Aug 12, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > You don't see anything wrong with telling a young girl that she is > not pretty enough to sing in public? That her voice will be used > but another prettier girl will be photographed? Or using computer > fireworks because the sky is too full of pollution to see real > ones? Or filling the stands with paid "fans" in order to save > face? What in the world is the world coming to when we can't > believe anything we see or read? It's all lies. Where do you draw > the line between entertainment and news? The television and > newspapers seem to have a real problem with drawing that line.