In society, the publicity of media holds an influential place in spreading information, changing attitudes and driving behavior. Today the most reliable source or so called “reliable source” is the media. Society has moved away from the acceptable objective truths to more cultural dominated opinions. Each day newspaper writers, talk show hosts, and reporters give us a slice of their opinions. One can see that in today's world people often underestimate the power of how a "group" -media- decide what is real or not. The human mind is so consumed by the flashiness of media that its power is bound to reach dangerous territories, so close to the reality that if the media stated that 2+2=5 it would be believable.
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Big Brother enforces this attitude by supervising control over people’s thoughts and privacy, by placing hidden cameras and microphones, and one particular method: using mental propaganda to promote this “lifestyle”. The Party uses the propaganda -media- to mislead their citizens. "The enemy" in the media (displayed on the telescreens) videos of Emanuel Goldstein would appear with subliminal messages. The representation of Goldstein portrayed "a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard- a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable (Orwell 12)”. Shaping the media to only display what the Party wanted people to believe, the media therefore molded the attitudes the citizens had. The Party used not only Newspeak but also doublethink to mislead the citizens of Oceania. “Newspeak is calculated to get rid of individuality by limiting the range of though through cutting the choice of words to a minimum("1984", 249)”. The Party restricted words used to strictly be only positive, thus preventing any negative criticism or commentary against the government. "The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-vie and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible (Orwell, 299)”. Hence the reason the Party went through such lengths to censor media was to eliminate any modes of thought which also eliminates freedom of
The media plays on the mind of …show more content…
Big Brother enforces this attitude by supervising control over people’s thoughts and privacy, by placing hidden cameras and microphones, and one particular method: using mental propaganda to promote this “lifestyle”. The Party uses the propaganda -media- to mislead their citizens. "The enemy" in the media (displayed on the telescreens) videos of Emanuel Goldstein would appear with subliminal messages. The representation of Goldstein portrayed "a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard- a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable (Orwell 12)”. Shaping the media to only display what the Party wanted people to believe, the media therefore molded the attitudes the citizens had. The Party used not only Newspeak but also doublethink to mislead the citizens of Oceania. “Newspeak is calculated to get rid of individuality by limiting the range of though through cutting the choice of words to a minimum("1984", 249)”. The Party restricted words used to strictly be only positive, thus preventing any negative criticism or commentary against the government. "The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-vie and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible (Orwell, 299)”. Hence the reason the Party went through such lengths to censor media was to eliminate any modes of thought which also eliminates freedom of