Tuesday, October 28, 2008

"The Sacrifice of Truth to Power"

Melanie Phillips, UK author of Londonistan, has written an important piece on the US presidential election and how the mainstream media is hiding the real Obama from us. Things have become "Orwellian," in her words. Indeed. (Now, have enough people read Orwell to know what this adjective means?)

2 comments:

sufimarie said...

Most of the Orwellian ones don't know who Orwell is.

Rudolf van der Berg said...

There have been some more good comments from the UK on the US Elections. It would be good to point to the Financial Times as a place for a well reasoned overview of two candidates

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d0b127c-a380-11dd-942c-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1