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US - 1984 in English 10: Media, Manipulation and Language

A Libguide of curated information to support the comparison contrast essay assignment in English 10.

What Orwellian Really Means

Room 101

Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson |

Txtng is killing language. JK!!!

The Power of the Media

What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? by Stuart Jeffries
From the Guardian
Beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four: Doublespeak in a Post-Orwellian Age.
Anti-Intellectualism and the "Dumbing Down" of America by Ray Williams
from Psychology Today
Mind Over Mass Media by Steven Pinker
from The New York Times
"Anti-Intellectualism"
A list of Huffington Post articles on the topic of anti-intellectualism.
How five American companies control what you think
from RT.com

Language

Ralph Fiennes blames Twitter for 'eroding' language by Lucy Jones
from The Telegraph
Why Ralph Fiennes is wrong about short words dumbing down language by Michael Rosen
from The Guardian
"How the internet is changing language" by Zoe Kleinman
from BBC Technology

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