http://www.leadingedgeassociates.net/blog/2006/12/19/media-matters-so-do-words/ Aim Higher Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:50:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.leadingedgeassociates.net/blog/2006/12/19/media-matters-so-do-words/#comment-106 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:46:33 +0000 http://www.leadingedgeassociates.net/blog/2006/12/19/media-matters-so-do-words/#comment-106 Our political language has come perilously close to that which George Orwell and others warned of. We debate the meaning of "is," "torture," and "civil war" as if the debate were meaningful rather than political bullshit. Orwell's essay on language is as timely as when it was published 60 years ago: http: //www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/politics-english-language1.htm Our political language has come perilously close to that which George Orwell and others warned of. We debate the meaning of “is,” “torture,” and “civil war” as if the debate were meaningful rather than political bullshit. Orwell’s essay on language is as timely as when it was published 60 years ago: http:
//www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/politics-english-language1.htm

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