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If George Orwell is watching from above, he must be impressed. In his novel 1984, what was meant as a cautionary tale against government control and intellectual obscurantism, seems to have come to pass without our full knowledge.
Where have our media taken us?
To be brutally honest, I would say down the yellow brick road and around the tree a few times over already. As our world has become more and more dependent on media, we have opened ourselves up to the bite of censorship, control and the ever-evolving deity which is 'social trend'.
In other words, our need to be
"connected" has pretty much left us dependent on information technology.
Our modern media complex
Social media, the printed press and television networks, has, more often than not, become trapped in a political cycle, serving not the people but their owners - and by extension the interests they each represent.
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