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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

George Orwell “1984”

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"...it was not enough to call a state based on numerical calculations."

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

"Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy. Winston was taking part in a demonstration in one of the central London squares at the moment when it happened."

Fox News: who says Orwellian can't be "green"?

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Fox stopped being a news outlet and became a propaganda outfit a long time ago. albiet the cancer is much more widespread in the opinion rather than the new side of its operations. To use another analogy they are addicted to high ratings by stoking conservative viewers feelings. Like all addictions it will not end well.

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Did you previously trust anything reported on Fox?

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I assumed that Fox's editorial choices would be primed to select stories that would cater to a conservative audience. I assumed hyperbole and exaggeration. I didn't assume an existential reluctance to state the truth.

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