Crispin Miller
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="post_date" title="2016-08-03" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" light="Light" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">August 3, 2016</span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" light="Light" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div class="post_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" light="Light" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div id="yiv6464738604yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469400023928_8591" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box;">Peter and Mickey spend the hour in discussion with Mark Crispin Miller, NYU professor, author, and media critic. Their conversation included both critiques of corporate media’s recent performance (such as coverage of the presidential campaign), and ongoing developments that threaten freedom of the press and of thought. The conversation offered a counter narrative to pro-establishment propaganda on issues ranging from election fraud to false flags and much more.</div></div></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Orwell’s telescreen was based in the technologies of television pioneered prior to World War II and could hardly be seen as science fiction. In the 1930s Germany had a working videophone system in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"> </span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3815277" style="font-family: " libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" none="none" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word">place</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">, and television programs were already being broadcast in parts of the United States, Great Britain and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"> </span><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/107769900608300307" style="font-family: " libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" none="none" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word">France</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">.</span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-rendering: optimizelegibility;" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Past, present and future</font></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The dominant reading of “1984” has been that it was a dire prediction of what could be. In the words of Italian essayist <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5856/umberto-eco-the-art-of-fiction-no-197-umberto-eco" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Umberto Eco,</a> “at least three-quarters of what Orwell narrates is not negative utopia, but <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=u7wTAQAAIAAJ&dq=umberto+eco+apocalypse&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=orwell" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">history</a>.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additionally, scholars have also remarked how clearly “1984” describes the present.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1949, when the novel was written, Americans watched on average four and a half hours of television a day; in 2009, almost twice <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-did-tv-watching-peak/561464/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">that</a>. In 2017, television watching was slightly down, to eight hours, more time than we spent <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/166553/less-recommended-amount-sleep.aspx" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">asleep</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the U.S. the information transmitted over television screens came to constitute a dominant portion of people’s social and psychological lives.</font></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-rendering: optimizelegibility;" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">‘1984’ as present day</font></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the year 1984, however, there was much self-congratulatory coverage in the U.S. that the dystopia of the novel had not been realized<b>. But media studies scholar <a href="https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/Mark_Crispin_Miller" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mark Miller</a> argued how the famous slogan from the book, “Big Brother Is Watching You” had been turned to “Big Brother is you, watching” <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/41398748" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">television</a>.</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Miller argued that television in the United States teaches a different kind of conformity than that portrayed in the novel. In the novel, the telescreen is used to produce conformity to the Party. In Miller’s argument, television produces conformity to a system of rapacious consumption – through advertising as well as a focus on the rich and famous. It also promotes endless productivity, through messages regarding the meaning of success and the virtues of hard <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/41398748" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">work</a>.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><div><header style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 165px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative;"><div class="article--header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; float: none; line-height: 1em;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/what-orwells-1984-tells-us-about-todays-world-70-years-after-it-was-published-116940" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after it was published</font></a></h2><p class="byline" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.2; clear: both;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/stephen-groening-447861" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">Stephen Groening</a>, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">University of Washington</span></font></span></p></div></header><div class="content" data-raw="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 165px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the year 1984, there was self-congratulatory coverage that the dystopia of the novel had not been realized. However, an expert argues that the technologies described in the novel are here and watching us.</font></span></div></div><div class="content" data-raw="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 165px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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