Sunday, 17 October 2010

Winston reads from Goldstein's book that "The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate opinion." Explore the history of using print...

This seems
to be less an essay about "" and more about history. With this in mind, there are
several questions you'd need to ask. Most notably: does printing impact public opinion. After
answering this question, the next question is how, and why? If your answer is a simple and
straightforward one, perhaps you could think about ways to complicate it provide nuance? For
example, take "1984" itself: the quotation provided here actually forms part of a more
complicated thesis. "The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public
opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further," and according to Goldstein,
television took it even further than that.couches his analysis as a kind of process, by which
the tools and technology the State uses to control and manipulate opinion is something which is
built and intensified across time, from one era to the next. Of course, it needs to be stated:
yours is...

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