[bksvol-discuss] Submission
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "BookShare" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:10:03 -0500
Hi all,
I've just submitted for validation:
What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics
edited by Andras Szanto
It's been read through, with headers stripped and ppage numbers and chapter
titles protected. K1000 ranked spelling 99.99%.
From back of book:
Manipulation. Bias. Spin. Dishonesty. Half a century after George Orwell's
death and six decades after his classic essay, "Politics and the English
Language"-in which he tied the corrosion of language to the corruption of
politics-American public life is riddled with the symptoms of obfuscation
and doublespeak Orwell so vividly diagnosed. A Big Brother- style dystopia
has not come to pass, but tools are available to spinmeisters and
image-makers that allow them to detach politics from reality on a daily
basis. Twenty prominent voices consider the outlooks for reality-based
politics in this anthology. From the use of deceptively murky jargon, to the
emotional pull of phrases like the "War on Terror," to the rise of
infotainment and pseudo-science, to the disinclination of big media to
provide real news, these writers address unsettling developments in today's
public discourse. Reflecting on Orwell, they shed new light on the power of
politicians and the media to deceive and to repair, to fracture and to unite
American democracy.
Deborah
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