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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOrwell quote on journalism vs. PR
This might help some of the people here who have difficulty with Glenn Greenwald's work on Edward Snowden.
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Orwell quote on journalism vs. PR (Original Post)
yurbud
May 2014
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Brickbat
(19,339 posts)1. This is often attributed to Orwell, but it is not documented as his quote.
He certainly didn't write it, in any case.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)2. it's tough fit "attributed to" on a cardboard sign.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)4. Better to just let the quote stand without the name, then, really.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)5. or change to "Orwellian"
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)7. An option.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)6. thanks for the challenge by the way. I looked it up and it is disputed
a friend challenged a Lincoln quote I posted about labor, and it turned out Lincoln DID say it, but the context made it sound far less radical.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)3. True, that.
As written upthread, it may be Orwell was channeling Rosebud:
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising. -- William Randolph Hearst
Doesn't matter, though, as the saying rings True.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)8. This might help some of the people here who have difficulty...
...with Glenn Greenwald's [font size=3]Pulitzer Prize Winning[/font] work on Edward Snowden.
You will know them by their WORKS.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)9. "the Pulitzer Prize is an inconsequential award given to extremists and
generic name-calling, ad hominem attacks, and glib put downs."
You can practically write the shills shit for them, they are so predictable.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)10. K&R.
True no matter who said it.