"If you hate violence and don't believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education. Perhaps society is past praying for, but there is always hope for the individual human being."
-- George Orwell

- 1949 NBC radio adaptation of Orwell's 1984
- Radio host Mike Malloy reads Orwell's 1984 (download MP3s)

Since we will be talking about radio/audio, I thought it might be interesting to check out the above audio links.

Since Punhal brought up issues of morality in his diary, I thought it fitting to start the discussion more intensely on the use and role of "framing," especially in applying 1984 to present day media.

More on the flip...

Please watch the following clip


My boyfriend works for Grey advertising in NYC. They are currently
working on a campaign for the advertising portion of the Cannes Film
Festival. The main point of their campaign is that TV is dead and that
the Internet is taking over. They were shooting pictures of "TV's
killing themselves" when he decided to take a movie of one of the
photo shoots with his camera. He then linked the movie to a website,
portraying it as a real suicide (sick, I know). The video received over 700 hits in less than 2 days after being posted on four different websites.

The vast amount of traffic to this site in such a short amount of time begs the questions:

How much we read on the Internet is actually accurate?
How much is conjured?
What are the motives behind people posting such videos?
What is the motivation to watch such "graphic" videos?
Are the American people slowly brainwashing each other?