1. Media and Society
... and entertaining. For example, in The Stranger the reporters 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 ... 68). All of the elaborate methods of rewriting history and altering the facts are solely to make Big Brother look good. The manipulation goes so far as to change who the country was at war w...
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