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Truth, journalism, and why critics of Fox News should read 1984

By Tom Rogan
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Truth, journalism, and why critics of Fox News should read 1984

As O’Brien says in George Orwell’s 1984, “Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. That is the fact that you have got to relearn, Winston.”

Attacking Fox News as a “plague” of untruths, Margaret Sullivan and her inner party comrades endorse that which they claim to abhor: the constraint of free expression and intellectual freedom. Sullivan needs to read (or re-read) Orwell’s 1984.

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