alt Hacker News1984 was about changing narratives in history, not fast-acting live news. Describing basic journalism as orwellian is misunderstanding his theme.
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exe34 • today at 3:12 PM
The party speaker literally adapted to the change in eternal enemy mid sentence without breaking the grammar. How much more fast-acting and live can you get? Are you suggesting that they had a free press in 1984 that didn't have to update their own description of what was happening?
During Hate Week in chapter two the speaker is handed a paper and changes the object of condemnation mid sentence.