Brian Lamb interviews William Lutz, author of Doublespeak. Lutz discusses how politicians and corporations use deceptive language to distort reality. He discusses George Orwell’s famous essay, Politics and the English Language, and George Orwell’s classic novel 1984. In the age of global communication, the total control of information by any one government is impossible. And so the establishment seeks to control public opinion by distorting information through doublespeak.

Has corporate doublespeak - spread through the mass media and the political establishment - become pervasive in every sector of modern society?

Doublespeak is used by professionals all the time. It is used ritualistically by scientists and academics - if they want to be taken seriously. It is in use by politicians, the media, and corporations. Is it a ‘pre-dawn vertical insertion,’ or is it simply an invasion? Is it a ‘pre-emptive anti-terror operation with collateral damage,’ or is it state-sanctioned murder carried out with complete impunity? Deep-chilled or frozen chickens? And what does ‘sugar-free’ really mean? Big business is only half a step behind the government in using doublespeak to deceive the population. And the mass media are their willing accomplices.

George Orwell 1984 | Lecture on Doublespeak in the Media (1989)

William Lutz gives a short lecture on doublespeak and George Orwell's 1984

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