{"id":16829,"date":"2020-07-29T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16829"},"modified":"2020-07-29T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T21:30:30","slug":"the-mainstream-news-goes-full-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/07\/29\/the-mainstream-news-goes-full-orwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mainstream News Goes Full Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In Orwell\u2019s novel \u201c1984\u201d, the Ministry of Love engaged in torture, the Ministry of Plenty engaged in rationing, the Ministry of Truth engaged in propaganda lies, and the Ministry of Peace engages in perpetual war. This seems at first glance to be so absurd that no one in their right mind would accept this fantastical <em>doublethink<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However, the mainstream news media is apparently using \u201c1984\u201d as a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1287396378407243777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201chow-to\u201d guide<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/NrW9O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blatantly pushing doublethink for real<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">Protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fUZTABUM21\">https:\/\/t.co\/fUZTABUM21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1287396378407243777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An increase in violence is not an intensification of peacefulness, much like how speech is violence but violence is free speech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16830\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-doublethink-means-the-power-of-holding-two-contradictory-beliefs-in-one-s-mind-simultaneously-george-orwell-22-12-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-doublethink-means-the-power-of-holding-two-contradictory-beliefs-in-one-s-mind-simultaneously-george-orwell-22-12-24.jpg 850w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-doublethink-means-the-power-of-holding-two-contradictory-beliefs-in-one-s-mind-simultaneously-george-orwell-22-12-24-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-doublethink-means-the-power-of-holding-two-contradictory-beliefs-in-one-s-mind-simultaneously-george-orwell-22-12-24-768x361.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Doubleplusungood\u2026<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Mainstream News Goes Full Orwell\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The mainstream news media is apparently using '1984' as a 'how-to' guide and blatantly pushing doublethink for real.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-doublethink-means-the-power-of-holding-two-contradictory-beliefs-in-one-s-mind-simultaneously-george-orwell-22-12-24.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In Orwell\u2019s novel \u201c1984\u201d, the Ministry of Love engaged in torture, the Ministry of Plenty engaged in rationing, the Ministry of Truth engaged in propaganda lies, and the Ministry of Peace engages in perpetual war. This seems at first glance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/07\/29\/the-mainstream-news-goes-full-orwell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,65,24,44,48],"class_list":["post-16829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-leviathan","tag-news","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16832,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16829\/revisions\/16832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}