... present at the trial of Meursault explained quite explicitly that they sensationalized his story so that they would have readers (Camus 84). Fahrenheit 451 contains a scene in which the firemen are chasing after Guy (Bradbury 121-49). The people in Fahrenheit 451 became actively involved in the search as they watched from there parlors. Though they never actually catch the real Guy Montag, the ... what media and ideas reach the audience. Though this may not seem like a bad proposal, this actually clouds the actual purpose of media and news: report the facts. In Fahrenheit 451, Beatty ex...

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... ? stories, like Fatherland (Robert Harris, 1992). Dystopias have always been a powerful rhetorical tool, which can make them controversial. A good example of this is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Flamingo, 1993). In the preface, Bradbury himself states: "By this time we were deeply into the McCarthy period. McCarthy had bullied the Army into removing some "tainted" books from the overseas libraries Meanwhile our search for ... a magazine publisher to print portions of Fahrenheit 451 came to a dead end. No one wanted to take a chance on a novel about past, present of future censorship. ...

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