George Orwell Cited Across WI Social Media Spectrum Today
There was this on Twitter from Charlie Sykes about noon today, probably tweaking talk radio host Mark Belling for lauding the WI legislature's hit on an investigative journalism project on the UW-Madison campus:
In the morning, I found a different way to reference Orwell:Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell
Walker Double-Speak On 'Prosperity' He's Created
His Orwellian message - - "we reformed our way to prosperity" - - is contradicted by facts:
The numbers tell the story:
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A little more 1984.
"There's a Walker boom going on in the nation's first voting state." So writes Byron York today.
Read more: http://triblive.com/opinion/featuredcommentary/4135856-74/walker-iowa-wisconsin#ixzz2VaR3vGud
Sykes repeats what he's told to those who don't really listen; they simply absorb.
Someone should tell Sykes that Orwell was a Socialist. In fact, Charlie is precisely the sort of man Orwell loathed.
While they're at it, tell him that Ayn Rand was a welfare-recipient, marriage-destroying philandering atheist also.
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