Obama buys own satellite TV channel; loops 2-minute ad... Oct 3, 2008
Ben Smith's Blog: The Obama channel - Politico. Obama having his own channel. (The Drudge Report)
The Isle of Jura Oct 3, 2008
George Orwell and 1984. George Orwell took advantage of the isolation, quiet and abundant wildlife of Jura, when in 1947-1948 he finished his classic novel 1984 while living in a house called Barnhill ... The third largest whirlpool in the world, famed authour George Orwell nearly lost his life when the boat he and his young nephews and nieces were sailing in was caught in it. (Suite101.com)
SAN MARCOS: 'Banned books' spotlighted at Palomar College Oct 3, 2008
"These are good authors," Urena added, surveying works by the likes of Stephen King and George Orwell. Palomar College librarian Linda Morrow said the school selected the books to include based on how often and how stridently they have been opposed, or "challenged," the process of asking a library to remove a work from its collection. (North County Times)
Red-light cameras can do surveillance, but Oregon need not let them Oct 3, 2008
sauc wrote on Sep 28, 2008 6:20 PM:" Sure, technology can make a safer society, but it can also create a totalitarian one, too. We have to be careful.Everyone should read 1984. George Orwell was a prophet. His book accurately predicts what happens when liberty is traded for safety: constant war, propaganda (War is Peace), and constant surveillance (Big Brother is watching). Sorry to say, we are well on our way towards what Orwell was warning us about. ". Barefoot wrote on Sep 29, 2008 11:57 AM:"... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
'McCarthyism' charge is hyperbole Sep 25, 2008
George Orwell once said that the word "communist" had become so debased that it had lost its original meaning. In Orwell's England, toffs dining at posh restaurants called inattentive waiters "communists," and on the way home said the same thing about cab drivers who got lost. (Anchorage Daily News)
Week 3 shakes Vikings way Sep 23, 2008
While he may not have the same success as Oprah Winfrey when she recommends an author on her TV show, Childress sent some mad props out to George Orwell, the author of such literary classics as 1984 and Animal Farm. As part of his pregame speech to the team Saturday night, Childress cited a passage from an Orwell work discussing diamonds in your own backyard using the reference to preach that the team doesnt have to look elsewhere for diamonds when there are plenty in their own... (VikingUpdate.com)
Warning: Television May Be Good For You Sep 21, 2008
To a new breed of critic on the Left, most notably Mark Crispin Miller, Todd Gitlin and the late Neil Postman, TV, driven by the need for profit, is transforming us into morally numb puppets of powerful exogenous forces beyond even the imagination of Aldous Huxley or George Orwell. This state of affairs, argues Miller, a professor of media studies at NYU, is due to the inordinate influences of commercial logic. (Townhall.com)
English teachers have lost the plot Sep 20, 2008
Alas, no. The English Teachers Association's submission to an HSC syllabus review by the NSW Board of studies uses the sort of incomprehensible cant George Orwell warned against, to argue against the inclusion of more Australian literature in the syllabus. "The ETA opposes the selective nomination of some types of text as this implies hierarchies in generic form and medium rather than in the quality of the texts themselves.". (Sydney Morning Herald)
Murdoch: Obama's economic policies 'naive' and 'old fashioned'......'will ruin our relationships with the rest of the world' Sep 20, 2008
Murdoch: Obama's economic policies are 'naive' --The Live Feed. Murdoch: Obama's economic policies are 'naive. (The Drudge Report)
FOXSexpert: How to Overcome the 7 Most Embarrassing Sex Moments Sep 16, 2008
George Orwell wrote, You can have affection for a murderer, but you cannot have an affection for a man whose breath stinks. Well said, George. (Fox News)
On Your Mind published Sept. 15 Sep 16, 2008
Talk about Newspeak George Orwell has to be rolling over in his grave. Sarah Palin s acceptance speech was fabulous. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
LETTERS: NCT, Sept. 9, 2008 Sep 10, 2008
Any act that violates as many parts of Our Constitution has no business having the word "Patriot" in it,unless we exist in the world written about by George Orwell in his book "1984". Regards, Alf. (North County Times)
TV panders to the gilded age Sep 9, 2008
George Orwell described his family as "lower upper middle" to capture the niggling class differences of prewar Britain. Post-Reagan America has a similar pecking order; what passes for middle class on some of the more popular teen dramas is actually lower upper middle. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
European Union to ban 'sexist' TV commercials... Sep 6, 2008
" Do you think sexist adverts should be banned? Related Content 00004000 More on ... Comments: 203 WHAT? Adverts which use sex to sell or promote gender stereotypes could be banned by the EU? FROM THE: YoEU wants to ban 'sexist' TV commercials??? WHAT? FROM THE: You-cannot-be-glamorous-here DEPT! Where on earth do they manage to find those loons - the CND memorial society? WELL, THAT'S THE END OF THE US' OVERSEAS SALES OF EVERYTHING! OMFG! Britney's a gonner and MTV and the RECORD COMPANIES and... (The Drudge Report)
Technology users are failing to take adequate steps to protect their digital privacy Sep 5, 2008
According to Lahlou, and other authors in the special issue describing recent experiments, the combination of information and communication technologies and pervasive computing will soon enable continuous monitoring of individual activity, beyond what was imagined by 1984 author George Orwell. What Lahlou terms "the system" referring to the mass of interconnected data-collection devices from mobile phones, to internet sites, to surveillance cameras can search, compare, analyze, identify,... (EurekAlert!)
'The Same Man': George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh as kindred souls, of a sort Aug 29, 2008
The Same Man': George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh as kindred souls, of a sort - International Herald Tribune ... The Same Man': George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh as kindred souls, of a sort ... The Same Man George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War By David Lebedoff 264 pages. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Review of Samuel Cohen's 50 Essays Aug 27, 2008
While this feature is nice for less advanced students, for others it can read more like a caricature of prolific and complex individuals such as Langston Hughes, Thomas Jefferson, or George Orwell. Ultimately, this anthology is a fantastic bank of essays to provide students with examples of a variety of essayists each at the top of his or her game. (Suite101.com)
Go on my Sun: war principles that served Deans well Aug 26, 2008
To paraphrase George Orwell, it is war without the bullets and the killings. The game is described in militaristic terms: attacks are launched down the flanks; halfbacks snipe; there are breakouts from a defensive position; kicks can be torpedoes or bombs. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Letters for Sunday, August 24, 2008 Aug 25, 2008
Well, George Orwell, 1984, we have arrived a bit late. What next. (Missoulian, MT)
What George Orwell Wrote, 70 Years Later to the Day Aug 25, 2008
The observations were made by George Orwell, whose copious diaries are now being published every day in blog form, exactly 70 years after they were made. The scholars behind the project say they are trying to get more attention for Orwell online and to make him more relevant to a younger generation he would have wanted to speak to. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Big Brother Sees All in the Technological Fishbowl Aug 18, 2008
In 1948 George Orwell portrayed an all-knowing Big Brother as a totalitarian nightmare. Sixty years later Big Brother is reality TV entertainment. (Scientific American)
So, you want to be a writer? Here's how. Aug 11, 2008
How does George Orwell fill us with dread. If you want to be a novelist, read novels new and old, satirical, experimental, Victorian, American. (Boston Globe)
Should George Orwell Blog? Aug 11, 2008
Should George Orwell Blog ... Should George Orwell Blog ... George Orwell AP Article Tools. (Time.com)
A glimpse into the thoughts of George Orwell Aug 9, 2008
Starting today, an entry from the diaries of George Orwell will be posted every day on the website of the Orwell Prize, the British award for political writing ... It may be hard to imagine that any of George Orwell's writings would be unread 58 years after his death ... They were included 20 years ago in Peter Davison's 14-volume "Complete Works of George Orwell," but that book had a small printing and is now out of print. (Boston Globe)
Orwellian days Aug 9, 2008
Excerpts from the diaries of George Orwell, to be posted on the website of the Orwell Prize, beginning today. June 8, 1940Since 1934 I have known war between England and Germany was coming, and since 1936 I have known it with complete certainty. (Boston Globe)
Timely political satire packs a wallop Aug 8, 2008
Sam Shepard s absurdist vision in The God of Hell draws a page from George Orwell s political satire 1984. Written as a cautionary tale in response to the Bush administration just prior to the 2004 election, Shepard s blistering farce about the dangers of Big Brother is just as timely in 2008. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Secrets of storytelling Aug 6, 2008
The English writer and essayist George Orwell was also a great advocate of an economic style and like Vonnegut compiled his own set of rules on how to write well. Orwell said that a long word should never be used when a shorter equivalent existed, and that redundant words should always be cut out. (CNN -- International)
LETTERS: NCT, Aug. 1, 2008 Aug 2, 2008
"I don't get the point. If memory serves me correct, GW Bush won the presidency with about the same percentage of the popular vote, but if you ask anyone today if they would vote for him again, the number is significantly less.I have a friend, who last night, thought 4 Long Island Ice Teas at happy hour was a good idea. He's not thinking the same thing today!Nice try, though! Alf wrote on Aug 1, 2008 11:46 AM:Well, "Wondering" at 11:01AM, I must warn you, I spent over 3 years of my life as an... (North County Times)
Pubs are the last place I'd want to drink in Jul 29, 2008
George Orwell once described a warm beer and a country pub as being among the essential flavours of England. Nobody would claim that now: perhaps a blood red pair of Mad Dog 20/20s (two for the price of one) would more accurately summon the present atmosphere. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Dark prophet Jul 28, 2008
It's George Orwell, though the similarity isn't so much in his own dystopian masterpiece, "Nineteen Eighty-Four," as in the three kitchen-sink novels he wrote during the 1930s, "A Clergyman's Daughter," "Keep the Aspidistra Flying," and "Coming Up for Air" (definitely a Dick-worthy title). There's the same sense of ceaseless desperation and perspiring spiritual fatigue - "the damp sweat of anxiety," as Dick writes in "Martian Time-Slip." Actually, in his novels there's hardly any other kind. (Boston Globe)
"Brideshead Revisited" Jul 26, 2008
Doctrine trumps all, and the result, as George Orwell wrote in another context, is "the cult of the sanctified sinner," which "seems to me to be frivolous, and underneath it there probably lies a weakening of belief, for when people really believed in Hell, they were not so fond of striking graceful attitudes on its brink. More to the point, by trying to clothe theological speculations in flesh and blood, it produces psychological absurdities." Even clothed in linen and flannel and tweed, the... (Salon)
Think About It-Historys Lessons Jul 18, 2008
In George Orwell s book 1984 the quote Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past provides the basis for the ultimate control of the people within that story. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Downtown Macy's retail space has a new owner Jul 16, 2008
Of course, Macy s learned how to write their history from George Orwell - they claimed that people would just LOVE it when they got rid of Marshall Field s because the Rich s conversion went so well. What conversion. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
‘Pages from the Past’ offers glimpse of history Jul 13, 2008
Pages from the Past offers glimpse of history 07/13/2008 Where can you view movie footage of the Hindenburg explosion, find the speeches of F.D.R., listen to the broadcast of George Orwell s War of the Worlds, and read the original Air Force report on the Roswell UFO incident. Pages from the Past is a special feature of the Local History page on the Times-Tribune Web site that includes actual front pages from our newspaper. (Scranton Times, PA)
Animal ID rolls ahead with premises registration (11) Jul 7, 2008
Cherie Graves wrote on Jan 3, 2006 11:16 AM:" NAID is going to eventually be in every home across the United States that owns animals, fish, fowl, birds, reptiles, exotics. All of our animals bodies will be invaded by microchips, and anyone who wants to own an animal will have to register their property, and have a USDA license. This is far more invasive than George Orwell envisioned in his "1984". There will never even be the pretense to privacy in the United States of America again. NAID is... (Sioux Falls Tri-State Neighbor, SD)
* Never underestimate propaganda Jul 4, 2008
In his classic novel 1984, George Orwell painted a dark picture of this phenomenon. Winston Smith, the main character, is shown four fingers but told he sees five. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
FEATURE-Siberian jail is champion in fight against TB Jul 4, 2008
Previously known as consumption, TB killed millions including the 19th-century Polish composer Frederik Chopin, Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and 20th-century English writer George Orwell. Rising living standards and antibiotics virtually wiped out TB -- bacteria spread via droplets which commonly attack the lungs invoking a bloody cough and sapping energy -- in the developed world during the second half of the 20th century. (AlertNet)
Your Friday reads Jul 4, 2008
As a verb it goes beyond Kremlinspeak and into the world of George Orwell. The Valleywag blog was positively acidic in : "Because BoingBoing started as a personal blog, it's entitled to be as petty, as hypocritical, and as inconsistent as a 14-year-old girl with a MySpace page. ... Had this happened at another website, we'd be reading all about it at BoingBoing, with its editors in a righteous nerd froth.". (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
'Big part of our future' now part of team's past Jul 1, 2008
I think he listened to too many George Orwell books on tape. By UpperDeck4Life. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Animal-Rights Farm Jul 1, 2008
George Orwell wrote the cruel finale to this tale 63 years ago in : "All animals are equal. But ." That wasn't how the egalitarian uprising in the book was supposed to turn out. It wasn't how the animal rights movement was supposed to turn out, either. (Slate)
Thanks to technology, public eye is open wider than ever Jun 30, 2008
If only author George Orwell knew how much Big Brother could see now. Pastors are being caught in compromising positions. (New Haven Register, CT)
Uncle Sam's cyber force wants you Jun 28, 2008
Part of the air force's new "above all" vision of full-spectrum dominance, America's emerging cyber force has control fantasies that would impress George Orwell. Working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and other governmental agencies, the air force's stated goal is to gain access to, and control over, any and all networked computers, anywhere on Earth, at a proposed cost to you, the American taxpayer, of US$30 billion over the first five... (Asia Times Online)
PowerRatings Stocks On Pullback Jun 25, 2008
In the same way that, as George Orwell put it in his classic tale, Animal Farm, some animals are "more equal" than others, some breakdowns are more worthy than others. While some breakdowns represent the real likelihood of still lower prices to come, other breakdowns, as severe as they may be, more accurately reflect opportunity for traders disciplined enough to wait for it. (Forbes -- Markets)
George Orwell meets the OIC Jun 25, 2008
We sent a clear message to the West regarding the red lines that should not be crossed. That sounds like the statement of a victor in a war, dictating terms to the vanquished. (Human Events Online)
Dictatorship comes naturally to them, right? Jun 24, 2008
But dictators can create reality, as George Orwell reminded us, with terror and misinformation. Just last year, indeed, Mr. Mugabe received a hero's welcome in Ghana. (Globe and Mail -- International)
NHL Draft-A-Paloosa Jun 20, 2008
I wonder if DW reads many George Orwell books ... Stroz - I wonder if DW reads many George Orwell books. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
'I won't watch BB' - Gretel Killeen Jun 18, 2008
" Share this article Also in Television Font size: Email article: Print article: Have Your Say Latest Comments: as i said before, someone needs to drop bb down the loo..that's where s - - t belongs ! Posted by: nutbag of brisbane 11:47am today this show needs to die, george orwell is tired of rolling in his grave Posted by: Toby of Melbourne 3:48am today I have never wanted to watch Big Brother. I think it is just a poor attempt at providing 'Australian content'. Let's hope they finally get the... (Courier Mail)
Record number of illegal immigrants being charged... Jun 18, 2008
Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984),[1] by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), is an English novel about life in an authoritarian regime as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth. Winston is degraded and psychologically tortured after he is arrested by the thoughtpolice under the instruction of the totalitarian government of Oceania, in the year 1984. (The Drudge Report)
Satire and Cruelty Jun 18, 2008
Satire has been called "punishment for those who deserve it." Writers from Erasmus to Jonathan Swift to George Orwell have used humor, irony and ridicule to expose the follies of the powerful, the failures of blind ideology and the comic weakness of human nature itself. So what is Franken's "provocative, touching and funny" contribution to the genre. (Townhall.com)
Shocked, not awed. Jun 18, 2008
He sounded so awfully good, and behind him, seen but unseen, was all of British intelligence, never wrong and always well-dressed, heirs to a legacy dating back to the East India Company, Gordon in Khartoum, Lawrence in Arabia, Bell in Baghdad, and even George Orwell and Leonard Woolf, serving the empire (and taking notes) in far-off Asia: Bond. James Bond. (Slate)
Barack Obama: Republicans will try to demonise my wife, Michelle Jun 15, 2008
George Orwell once wrote "the catholic and the communist are alike in that they both believe the other to be neither honest nor intelligent". I wonder what modern day intreptation we can apply given some of the comments on this page. (Times Online)
Fighting Crime: On street level Jun 15, 2008
Author George Orwell said it best: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.". David Cervone. (Florida Times-Union)
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Jun 14, 2008
Other digested reads. John CraceSaturday June 14, 2008. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
More of this story Jun 14, 2008
Perhaps George Orwell was just a little off with the timing of his novel about a totalitarian state, because 24 years later (and 59 years after he wrote it) the current state of political affairs in this country eerily resembles the Orwellian dystopia of 1984. At least, it does to Tim Robbins. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Tea bag to celebrate its century Jun 13, 2008
Author George Orwell described it as a "mainstay of civilisation". Sara Howe, of Tetley, said: "It's hard to imagine what life would be like without the tea bag.". (Telegraph.co.uk)
* [ LETTERS ] Jun 13, 2008
His statement, along with the many recent opinions that the Olympics not be mixed with politics, remind me of a quote by George Orwell. He said that The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
LETTERS: NCT, June 12, 2008 Jun 13, 2008
" The most used examples are in the cases of Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler. It is a movement defined by the masses believing in a "Messiah", of sorts. A single person who can deliver them from their crises. George Orwell coined the phrase: Liberal Fascism in repsonse to a question, said he perfered a type of "Nanny State. " A kind of "soft" fascism.Today, who most resembles this form, this idea of authoritarian personality? Why.. Barack Obama, of course. Chuck wrote on Jun 12, 2008 9:44... (North County Times)
Google's Street View comes to PB County Jun 13, 2008
1984 George Orwell Google it. Were Becoming a Surveillance Society Just another Example of Us Loosing our rights. (The Palm Beach Post)
Recipe for disaster? Jun 9, 2008
Hungry City is a sinister real-life sequel to Animal Farm with the plot turned upside down by time in ways even George Orwell could not have foreseen. Its key image is the Pig Tower, a 21st-century Dutch invention for producing pork in custom-built city blocks, each 76 floors high, designed to house pigs in comfortable apartments with lavish bedding and ample rootling space on large, open-air balconies. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Why Big Brother represents a return to early Christianity Jun 8, 2008
The original Big Brother society in George Orwell s Nineteen Eighty-Four drew the grim political conclusions of this belief. Everyone is publicly at stake all the time. (Times Online)
Film, TV industries critical to economy: mayors Jun 6, 2008
The mayor, at least in part in jest, suggested that the bill should have been named C-1984 rather than C-10, a reference to the George Orwell book in which the state exercises extreme control over its people. Mayor Gerald Tremblay of Montreal told the committee that the film industry has been active in his city for 60 years and that the industry is worth $1. (Globe and Mail)
Ten chapters May 25, 2008
When I joined The Observer in 1996, the world of books was in limbo between hot metal and cool word processing, but it would have been recognisable to many of our past contributors, from George Orwell and Cyril Connolly, to Anthony Burgess and Clive James. Everything smelled of the lamp. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Other Voices May 24, 2008
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face." -George Orwell *** It has been 60 years since George Orwell published his novel 1984. Described as political satire, it is, in reality, a political prophecy. (Missouri Valley Times News, IA)
Burmese Daze May 24, 2008
George Orwell would place a good deal of blame on Britain, Burma's colonial overlord from the mid-19th century until 1948. In his 20s, Orwell (n Eric Arthur Blair) served as a policeman in Burma for five years. (Slate)
Summer Reading May 21, 2008
This theory was first espoused by George Orwell in "1984," published in 1949. They have taken the ball and run with it ever since. (Townhall.com)
